My personalized configs for awesome window manager, optimized for an awesome experience.
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
awesome
the window manager itselfrofi
with rofi2k my preferred launchercompton/picom
compositor, for transparencylxappearance
for gtk stylingcopyq
for clipboard managementnitrogen
for wallpaperslight
for display brightnessamixer
for volume managementautorandr
for multiple displaysi3lock/i3lock-fancy
for lockscreen in session widget
# Arch
sudo pacman -S awesome picom lxappearance copyq nitrogen light amixer autorandr rofi
# Debian
sudo apt install awesome picom lxappearance copyq nitrogen light amixer autorandr rofi
To get awesome2k, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/awesome2k
ln -sfnv "$PWD/awesome2k" ~/.config/awesome
Comes with a bunch of customized widgets:
- audio
- battery
- cpu
- disk
- network
- ram
- session
- text
- time
- todo
Add the following bash function to your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
file to customize awesome and rofi accent colours
accent() {
color="#1688f0"
if [[ $1 == '#'* ]]; then
color=$1
elif [ -z "$1" ]; then
color="#1688f0"
else
color="#$1"
fi
sed -i "s/local accent.*/local accent = '$color'/" ~/.config/awesome/awesome2k.lua
sed -i "s/selected.*/selected: $color;/" ~/.config/rofi/themes/shared/colors.rasi
echo 'awesome.restart()' | awesome-client
}
# Example usage: accent #454ec5
You can also install pastel and combine it with the accent function to pick and set any colour on your screen as accent
accent $(pastel pick | pastel format hex)
Hit Super + /
key to view keyboard shortcuts.
After using KDE for a long time with tiling support and struggling with config management, finally decided to switch to awesome.
awesome2k was built using nvim
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