Getting Started With Awesome Window Manager DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Lonnie
By hitting super+s, I noticed that maybe the dmenu task in this video was unnecessary, because super-p already offers something that functions like dmenu. However, covering how to bind dmenu with a key was helpful for the purposes of demonstration.
In videos like these, I wish you'd always cover how to adjust the size of what gets displayed on the screen. The fonts are so small by default! The first thing I want to know is how to make things bigger. I'll figure that out, though.
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By hitting super+s, I noticed that maybe the dmenu task in this video was unnecessary, because super-p already offers something that functions like dmenu. However, covering how to bind dmenu with a key was helpful for the purposes of demonstration.
In videos like these, I wish you'd always cover how to adjust the size of what gets displayed on the screen. The fonts are so small by default! The first thing I want to know is how to make things bigger. I'll figure that out, though.
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Praneet
Hey Derek Even today the nitrogen wallpaper bug is happening in awesome wm, i don't think it's a bug, i think the autostart application shouldn't be there at the bottom or some thing we are missing, i think the autostart apps should be under the mod+ctrl+r (reload the confg), i'll try to make it work, after logging in it's working great but as soon as you reload the config with shortcut key(mod+ctrl+r) it goes back to default ugly looking wallpaper.
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Hey Derek Even today the nitrogen wallpaper bug is happening in awesome wm, i don't think it's a bug, i think the autostart application shouldn't be there at the bottom or some thing we are missing, i think the autostart apps should be under the mod+ctrl+r (reload the confg), i'll try to make it work, after logging in it's working great but as soon as you reload the config with shortcut key(mod+ctrl+r) it goes back to default ugly looking wallpaper.
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manbearpig
Hey absolutely love your content.
I'm having some issues with autostarting programs. I can place awful.spawn.with_shell(-termite-) at the bottom of the rc.lua file. It works fine the first time. But if i make a change to the rc.lua file somewhere else and restart awesome, it runs that code and opens another instance of termite. been trying to figure out how to stop that from happening for quite a while.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Hey absolutely love your content.
I'm having some issues with autostarting programs. I can place awful.spawn.with_shell(-termite-) at the bottom of the rc.lua file. It works fine the first time. But if i make a change to the rc.lua file somewhere else and restart awesome, it runs that code and opens another instance of termite. been trying to figure out how to stop that from happening for quite a while.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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no
with the awful spawn system you could simplify it by doing this
local AutoSpawn = -
[-picom-] = true,
[-feh args here-] = true
-
for k,v in pairs(AutoSpawn) do if v then awful.spawn.spawn_with_shell(v) end end
Sorry for the implementation but I'm writing this using a phone, plus if some of it doesn't work than it's cause I haven't used awesome. But I for sure know lua very well
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with the awful spawn system you could simplify it by doing this
local AutoSpawn = -
[-picom-] = true,
[-feh args here-] = true
-
for k,v in pairs(AutoSpawn) do if v then awful.spawn.spawn_with_shell(v) end end
Sorry for the implementation but I'm writing this using a phone, plus if some of it doesn't work than it's cause I haven't used awesome. But I for sure know lua very well
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NullError404
he dt!
i took your esme dot files an changed out some programs and binds. only thing i cant figure out is the top bar. how do i change the colors and and maybe remove the weather widget. i also noticed the volume widget does nothing on click so i guess i need another program.
great expiriance tho. decided to main drive awesome under endevouros on my old laptop and its snapy!
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he dt!
i took your esme dot files an changed out some programs and binds. only thing i cant figure out is the top bar. how do i change the colors and and maybe remove the weather widget. i also noticed the volume widget does nothing on click so i guess i need another program.
great expiriance tho. decided to main drive awesome under endevouros on my old laptop and its snapy!
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Auxilium
I consider AwesomeWM to be a hybrid.. meaning if you want only floating windows with bars and open/close buttons, then you can have that.
You can also remove window bars and buttons and have it only act as a tiling wm.
I think that AwesomeWM is basically best of both worlds, you can float and/or you can tile. I mean moreso than most other tiling window managers.
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I consider AwesomeWM to be a hybrid.. meaning if you want only floating windows with bars and open/close buttons, then you can have that.
You can also remove window bars and buttons and have it only act as a tiling wm.
I think that AwesomeWM is basically best of both worlds, you can float and/or you can tile. I mean moreso than most other tiling window managers.
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William
13:27 I really don't like how the -nitrogen- preferences menu opened at the lower-left corner of the screen rather then being in the center of the screen (at least the center of the window).
That's just like having a window open on one monitor and the context menu appears on a completely different monitor -- that's just frustrating.
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13:27 I really don't like how the -nitrogen- preferences menu opened at the lower-left corner of the screen rather then being in the center of the screen (at least the center of the window).
That's just like having a window open on one monitor and the context menu appears on a completely different monitor -- that's just frustrating.
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JR
i'd love a video on how to write your config from scratch. i feel like instead of having everything and deleting stuff you don't want it should be easier. with a clean file. im just not sure about spacing and what things are required from the system install be nice to have a video because you do awesome on your config organization
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i'd love a video on how to write your config from scratch. i feel like instead of having everything and deleting stuff you don't want it should be easier. with a clean file. im just not sure about spacing and what things are required from the system install be nice to have a video because you do awesome on your config organization
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Ben
All that fuss about a stone age window manager ?
The default text editor/browser/mail client/etc are already set during Ubuntu install.
And where's the productivity gain if all you're doing is coding ?
We can already shift between app windows on Gnome.
I see little awesome in all this.
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All that fuss about a stone age window manager ?
The default text editor/browser/mail client/etc are already set during Ubuntu install.
And where's the productivity gain if all you're doing is coding ?
We can already shift between app windows on Gnome.
I see little awesome in all this.
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Kek
This is one of the only tutorials i watched to the end. And thats pretty rare for me. Really good job in explaining this, exactly what i needed. I am new to linux and installed manjaro today and am already trying to operate awesome only using hotkeys. Thanks for the great tutorial.
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This is one of the only tutorials i watched to the end. And thats pretty rare for me. Really good job in explaining this, exactly what i needed. I am new to linux and installed manjaro today and am already trying to operate awesome only using hotkeys. Thanks for the great tutorial.
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