Tiling window managers often start a conky to the right or to the left to help a first time user. The conky will show you the necessary keybindings to navigate in a TWM. We show you the workflow how to remove the conky. We do not want to start it up again after every...
In this video we show you how easy it is to remove the system panel icons. Just do not launch them as you do not “really” need them. These apps can be reached via different other ways. We show you the dmenu as easiest...
Adding more themes to your favorite desktop is always fun. It is time to change it to your own personal taste. I started with the theme from copycats and “made it my own”. That is exactly what any of us can do. I was updating the Awesomewm code and ended...
We can change the theme of the panel of Awesome that we have put at the top. You can also put it at the bottom if you like. The themes can be changed in the file rc.lua. The gaps need to be changed on a per theme basis. You can set every theme differently. Extra In...
In this tutorial we are going to change the fonts. Normally we use noto fonts. But we can change the fonts as well. We will use the terminus fonts. Here are some terminal commands in regards with fonts fc-list | grep Terminus We change it to xos4 terminus. We change...
This time we are going to change the font size. You have to change it in your theme lua. So it is to be changed in every theme. In the rc.lua you can change also the tagnames. We change the size of fonts and change the width and height of the menu. Exaggerate with the...
Sometimes you need to manually intervene to change the resolution in Awesome. He did recognize my screen resoltution on virtual box but NOT on bar metal aka my ssd. There is an easy way to set the right resolution with arandr. Check the screenlayout folder and...
We want to force Awesome to open an applicaton on a specific tagname and a specific screen. Dual screen users can use these settings. Or Multi screen users for that matter. As example we want to launch Atom always on screen 1 and tag 2. We apply this and test it...
We can set rules to set applications to float or tile. There are also rules to maximize applications. There is a long list of rules to check out. We will set a rule to maximize gpick and we will use xprop to find out the class....
Rc.lua is one of the most important files of Awesome. This time we take a look at the keyboard shortcut keys. We have declared variables at the top like browser, terminal, mailclient etc… You change these variables and reload awesome again. Or you change the...
Super + W or right click on the menu you get the awesome menu. We can not change the icons. We do not use the menu but we left it in for you. Closing the menu is done with escape or again right mouse click. You can change the menu any way you want. We explain how the...
In this tutorial we will change the tagnames. We go over the variables that are declared in the rc.lua as well before we start changing the tagnames. You can change the icons any way you see fit. We use the awesome font to get icons from the net to change the menu....
Awesome is based on the LUA programming language. We will change the lua code and let awesome crash. Just one comma in the wrong place crashes the system. Then you will an error messagen and get the standard awesome configuration and standard menu. Fix the mistake and...
The wallpaper “Galactus” comes in and we will use it to change our desktop accordingly. We choose a new icon theme and kill the conky. Atom is going to be my editor because of the lua syntax highlighting. We first copy/paste powerarrow-blue and rename it...
We will use lxappearance to change the theme, icons and cursors. In the menu you can find it in “customize look and feel”. I rather like to use rofi with Super +F12 and choose ‘lxappearance’. We will change our wallpaper on the basis of a pink...
Variety changes the wallpapers but also provides new wallpapers. Nitrogen changes the wallpapers but does NOT provide new wallpapers. Your updates for Awesome will come in at /etc/skel. Then we need to compare what we have and what comes in. Use meld. We added the...
When we update awesome you will get a new package in. It will be saved to /etc/skel. We will never save it to your home directory. We use meld to compare what I have and what comes in from ArcoLinux. Nitrogen –restore has been added for people who do not want to...
Ncmpcpp is a great way to play music from your music library from the terminal. There are lots of articles about ncmpcpp on the websites. Use the music note icon to launch and stop ncmpcpp. Right mouse click on the music note stops the application. There are more...
We will use atom (and extra packages : lua syntax, pigments and minimap) to change the themes. Search for the word “theme” and change the theme by changing the number. We changed the weather to New York in the blue theme. Changing the theme to...
We will change the weather widget. It is now set to the weather of Belgium, Antwerp. We take a look at the top of theme.lua and checkout the variables that are defined at the top. Search for weather in the theme.lua to find the widget. Copy/paste the weather link to...
Navigating around in a windows tiling manager is different than in other windows managers. We have tagnames to put applications on and we learn the most important shortcuts. There is a very important shortcut to set your tiling and that is Super + Spacebar. Super +...
We explain the advantage of variety. It sets your wallpaper but it also gets new wallpapers from desktoppr.co. Make an account there and sync the wallpapers to your dropbox. In autostart.sh we launch variety. If you do not want that, put a hashtag before it and...
Every desktop has its own “headquarters”. A folder, where all the settings reside… ~/.config/awesome With Super + S you get an overview of all the shortcuts that are available. Do not like the shortcuts. Change them. We talk about the different...
