This is Awesome

This has been my daily driver for over three years now. The base code has been used even longer. Still, it's a work in progress. All the typical stuff work and I don't expect your windows to disappear randomly but bugs are there and features are missing.

I have used this config on it's own and used nm-applet, blueman and setxkbmap in my config/autostart file, but using XFCE as the DE has proven much nicer for now. I hope to create more widgets and applets to replace the dependency on secondary gui so you wouldn't worry much about it.

The theme throughout the years have been ignored and theme values have been hardcoded all over the place but I've been trying to organize everything and progress is moving along nicely. Some configuration is already override-able using config/configuration.json which I'm trying to create an app to manage. There are examples in config.example/configuration.json you can use.

Install

I will create a nicer documentaion on how everything works and how the install process goes but for now;

• Make sure you are using awesome-git in AUR if using pacman or somehow build development version of AwesomeWM.
• Make sure lua-pam-git is installed, or the alternative version if you are not using pacman.
• Clone the repo somewhere and make sure submodules are installed: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mpourismaiel/dotfiles.git.
  • If you have already cloned the repo or are trying to update: git pull && git submodules update --init will help.
• Go to the cloned directory and create config/configration.json and config/autostart:

config/configuration.json should look like this:

{
  "terminal": "xfce4-terminal",
  "wallpaper": "/home/mahdi/Pictures/wallpaper.jpg",
  "profile_image": "/home/mahdi/Pictures/profile.jpg",
  "commands": {
    "full_screenshot": "flameshot full -p /home/mahdi/Pictures/Screenshots/ -c"
  },
  "available_layouts": ["max", "tile", "tabbed", "machi", "floating"],
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "1",
      "layout": "max"
    },
    {
      "name": "2",
      "layout": "max"
    },
    {
      "name": "3",
      "layout": "tabbed"
    },
    {
      "name": "4",
      "layout": "max"
    },
    {
      "name": "5",
      "layout": "max"
    },
    {
      "name": "6",
      "layout": "max"
    }
  ]
}

All the values except terminal, wallpaper and profile_image have default values.

config/autostart should be a text file in which each line will be executed in the terminal to spawn the process. You can add for example setxkbdmap us,fr or firefox -P each in a new line.

You might find it helpful to check the scratch.sh file.

You can also start it in Xephyr before uprooting your entire setup. Use:

$ Xephyr -br -ac -noreset -screen 1920x1080 :2   # if :2 is not possible, change to another display slot. Use that value for DISPLAY variable in the next line
$ DISPLAY=:2 awesome -c ~/.config/awesome        # change to cloned directory path

Other dependencies

I use a bunch of apps in my shortcuts or some stuff that's necessary. You will get notifications for them hopefully if they are missing. Stuff like:

• flameshot for screenshots
• lua-pam-git for lockscreen
• system-monitoring-system for task manager

Functionalities

A bit too hard to document properly right now, the folder structure in lib/modules/ and lib/widgets/ should give you some idea. Use Super+S to view keybindings (the documented ones) and Super+D to open the launcher, Rofi can be run with Super+Shift+D as a backup.

Some functionalities to note:

• Start menu (in search of a better name) displaying notifications and some settings, more settings to come
• Calendar, hopefully integrating Google and other calendar providers soon
• Custom app launcher, with rofi as backup. Allows pinning applications right now with plans to add integrations with web services and find command.
• Grouped tasklist, nice task switcher with Alt+Tab
• Animations in a lot of places
• Multiple monitor support
• Mouse AND keyboard supported for almost every action, no need to remember a useless keybinding for something you rarely use

Screenshots