My AwesomeWM Configuration

[@SantiYounger]

excellent video, I'll share a couple of notes 13:49 removing title bars 15:20 dmenu install 16:50 run dmenu with shortcut 19:40 floating window plug in (when title bars have been removed) 17:40 keybindings (firefox shortcut)

[@mathiasodlund]

Hey, great tutorial. Instead of purging the default config for titlebars (something that might come in handy later) set "titlebars_enabled = false" on 14:00

[@greatsaid5271]

for moving floating windows just hold super key + left mouse click for movement or right mouse click for resizing, also don't forget to change your theme for status bar my favorite is powerline dark

[@SantiYounger]

thanks for the tip! I didn't know this!

[@vaisakh_km]

okey now only i am knwoing we can change status bae theme

[@nevoyu]

By default you can just hold super and left click and drag to move a floating window around. And you can resize it with a right click+drag

[@crwmike0]

When you reload awesome, it defaults to the first available layout in the list, so if you want more than on layout, put the layout you want to load first.

[@makc]

Cool. I didn't know that was an option.

[@SkyyySi]

Instead of dmenu, you can just use the built-in launcher, run with Super+p. Unlike the run prompt, it supports completions and also supports XDG shortcuts (with icons and such), in addition to running commands.

[@yourfamilytree833]

I installed Awesome yesterday. You video has been a help with the key bindings.

[@drumpf4all]

You don't need nitrogen. You can set up wallpapers natively. Check out Luke Smith's fairly recent vid on the topic. It's awesome.

[@8tungdata]

Do you have a link?

[@thecashewtrader3328]

@@8tungdata kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bZfmV-mJudqs0

[@MikkoRantalainen]

I think every video with tiling window manager should have keyboard action in closed captions or burned in the video. Similar to Blender "screencast keys".

[@prasadsawool6670]

thanks for this video.. this is one of the most detailed videos on configuring Awesome WM out here :p

[@charliekahn4205]

I've found that a good way to set your wallpaper in Awesome is, since Awesome uses its own wallpaper script, to have it set the wallpaper to the dconf value for your wallpaper path. And then just autorun a settings daemon.

[@ewhac]

1:34: Frequently you're better off with Super+p, which can be thought of as a very thin "start" menu (sort of 'dmenu' with icons). You can navigate it via arrow keys, or start typing the name of a command, and the menu will change to show all matches. 3:28: Given that your current directory was already ~/.config/awesome, then you could simply have said "cp /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ." where the destination is "." i.e. the current directory. 7:00: picom is a fork/reimplementation of compton, the latter of which appears to have become unmaintained. 11:56: If you're coming from a more traditional window manager, the behavior of a tiling window manager moving and resizing your windows can be jarring. So I suspect the floating mode default was chosen so that newcomers wouldn't be frightened off quite so quickly. 13:24: Uh, dude, that's os.getenv(), which gets the value of environment variables. So changing the argument to 'nvim' is not going to do what you want. 17:30: Super+space already has a mapping -- it cycles through the various tiling layout modes. You appear to have lucked out that your changed mapping was applied last. Also: I'm concerned that your solution doesn't appear to guard against multiple launches. In other words, press Super+space. Then, before you've finished entering a command, press Super+space again. Does a second copy of 'dmenu' get started? 19:30: No fixes required. The default mapping for dragging floating windows is Super+left_click, i.e. hold down the Super key, left-click and hold on the window, then move the mouse. To resize a floating window, move the pointer near the edge or corner you want to drag, press and hold Super+right_click, then move the mouse. Nevertheless, the 'collision' mod is pretty cool.

[@carpii]

Could I ask a question about your dotfiles repo? Do you typically just clone the repo directly into your home dir (and then .gitignore or add/commit any extra files which appear over time?) It wasn't that clear from the video, but this isn't an awesomewm question so much as a deployment one

[@alirezaaazerra7038]

Super + P is something like dmenu too and its built-in in awesome

[@TheZakarumite]

Very helpful for beginners. A must watch.

[@peppe540]

Great video, will be applying a number of your tips soon. Just started with Awesome (after OpenBox) and find your video great. Subscribed also. Thanks!

[@stahmedpendragonguinevere2711]

As a newbie to Fedora and using awesome, this was most awesome matey, thank you!

[@Pongsn]

Hey mate great vid, made the decision easy on what to get into next. Will give this a shot on my laptop.

[@fongus6420]

As a roblox game developer, awesome seems like a great wm. I already know lua so it shouldn’t be too hard to customise!

[@---dy4lr]

Awesome has it's own Dmenu clone under the default key Super + P.

[@ciaopete]

Thank you for posting this I found it really useful

[@ahmedfenti9462]

this channel is getting cooler thanks u

[@stephane153]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing.

[@comityway]

this is a great video and a great setup - love it - now have it and use it - thanks.

[@makc]

Thanks you

[@WafflesOinc]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@ichaa3tech]

Its a better dwm . its built on xcb . maybe a more striped down version of it would be better . I use bspwm its footprint is very small compared to awesome .

[@marcelijankowski9593]

Awesome! Thanks for tips

[@Mydrac]

Hello, nice video. Which plugin is used to complete the path for the file system paths. Thanks. Minute 9:38

[@makc]

github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

[@jrdicoll]

Really nice video! I am new to awesome and this was great!

[@awanawaskawanawa]

I've used Awesome for a while and I loved it, the only reason I switched to Bspwm is that I find the Lua syntax very confusing

[@makc]

I just installed bspwm a few days ago. I haven't messed around too much with the config, but I agree it's less weird than the Awesome config.

[@nevoyu]

As a primarily lua dev I can tell you I feel the same way with trying to use any other language

[@arturwiebe7482]

Second that. Expect that the Lua interface gives you so much power to change anything, basically.

[@fredwilson1191]

Any video on the top bar, increasing the font size, test size and colors ?

[@TOMASVELASQUEZ_NKS]

Very awesome XD, you won the subscribe

[@tengyang6395]

This tutorial was very easy to understand and I learned a lot. Thank you.

[@jack92344]

Thank to your sharing, I'm new to awesome, this video is very nice. :)

[@giacomodelillo1719]

Straight to the point, awesome 😉😂

[@oxonomy2372]

But the window is flickering constantly, what’s that about?

[@8tungdata]

How do you get rid of the default awesome wallpaper? You haven't solved this issue. At every start there is for a short glimpse the default wallpaper before the wallpaper appears which is set by nitrogen. This is really odd.

[@makc]

I never really looked into it. There is some kind of tool built into awesome that handles wallpapers, so that might get better results. For me the nitrogen app works fast enough that I barely even notice the delay.

[@ewhac]

Wallpapers are handled... clumsily in Awesome. Basically, the wallpaper is hard-coded into the Awesome theme, which itself is another Lua file. The entry is "theme.wallpaper", usually at the top of the theme file, which is an absolute path to the image file you want to use as the desktop wallpaper.

[@motif5775]

Thank you. Very helpful.

[@tsilb]

Why is Super called Mod4 instead of "Super"? Why is Alt called Mod1 instead of "Alt"?

[@see-sharp]

Sorry to bother but how do i get this current line highlight on neovim?

[@joaopauloalbq]

I am thinking of moving from I3 to Awesome. Can you make a video about panel customizations? Thanks

[@homfes]

Have you already figured out how to customize the awesome wm panel?

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@motif5775]

How did you get those random quotes everytime you opened a terminal? I think that's pretty cool 😎.

[@makc]

How interesting that you should ask. I have a video on the topic here (On arch the package is called cowfortune not fortune): kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIe7en2crruViKc

[@johnlocke9609]

Awesome video for awesome. Thank you!

[@mustafababdullah2485]

I'm looking to figure out how to assign some applications to a #ed window i.e. Firefox only opens on workspace #2 Spotify opens on #9 ect

[@SamSam-df4xp]

Kitty...wow. Haven't heard anyone talking about it much. Maybe you could do a video on using Kitty and kitten panel! Great video btw. 👍👍👍

[@makc]

I'll look into it. Thanks for watching.

[@sheikhshakilakhtar6844]

@@makc Please do. I want to learn it as well.

[@henninb]

Nice video. I am an xmonad user, however it is nice to see other potential wm options

[@arvindersingh9863]

How to open new window on the right side of the screen so that my first window is always the main window?

[@johnsonmlw]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@unclearam2055]

This really helped. Thank you so much :) God bless

[@git_t0v]

Two things: When i installed nitrogen and super+r to open nitrogen, it's just a blank white screen. No pictures are on there. Did I miss something or do I have add photos myself to that file for nitrogen to use? @3:18 you have a sample config and as I am following along, I don't have that sample config. How do I follow along now?

[@richieashton3927]

I know this is late. But question. I would like to get back to Arch Linux, and i need help with something. Read carefully please. 1. I would like to have all my programs bound using keyboard shortcuts. Can only be access using these shortcuts. 2. The home screen will be only wallpaper skipping through like every 15 minutes or so. 3. There will be no task bar, however i want widgets for wifi, battery indicator(using a laptop dell m5040), volume and bluetooth. 4. On the home screen at the top left will be the terminal. However the terminal will have no boarders, or color (using the desktop wallpaper as background) just a blinking dot or -. Is this kind of thing possible?

[@szenesiswebs3909]

It is, it may take a lot of time to set up though.

[@richieashton3927]

@@szenesiswebs3909 hey. I got it setup. Using a window manager only So every program i use is bound to a key binding and dmenu. Only problem i have is bounding terminal applications to the keyboard. Example htop. Using xmonad. Besides that i do everything in the terminal. Wifi, bluetooth vifm for file browser but i hardly use that now. So everything is going good. Just the terminal applications i have a problem with. Thanks for the reply tho. Much love. Bless

[@szenesiswebs3909]

@@richieashton3927 you could try binding alias to a letter from the terminal. For example I have an alias that when I type w, the wallpaper changes.

[@richieashton3927]

@@szenesiswebs3909 ok. Will have to look up how to do that. Thanks

Nice vídeo Mack!

[@makc]

Nice comment Sergio

I am leaning how to apply rulles on Awesome!

[@jignaciol]

Very good

[@MrOB099]

Are you still using Arch in a VM at the moment?

[@makc]

Nope. That's full on arch.

[@MrOB099]

@@makc what hardware you using? Just out of interest, I'm thinking of getting a Thinkpad. Are you still going to use your Mac?

[@makc]

I’ve got a ThinkPad 430 that I upgraded to 16gb or memory and a standard ssd. And an old pc I built a while ago which I’m working on upgrading. (Dual core i3, 8gb or ram, no GPU, nothing impressive). Arch runs shockingly well on both.

[@ShedyQ]

Hey, loved this whole tutorial. I just have one thing that I have been trying to figure out forever and its really difficult to figure out. If you autostart a program in at the bottom of the lua file with awful.spawn.with_shell("firefox") or a terminal or anything. It opens up just fine, but if you make any other change to the lua file and restart awesome (without logging out), it runs those commands again and spawns another instance of that same program. I know there is a way to do it so that if an instance is already running, it doesnt open another one. I remember from a long time ago that it is some sort of for loop, but im not nearly good enough in lua or programming in general to figure it out again. Any help would be appreciated. With this one problem being fixed I will have system built perfectly. Thanks. 1/2 man 1/2 bear 1/2 pig.

[@oktuvida]

Hi guy. Sorry for this late reply. I can think of two possible solutions (if I understood you correctly; I'm not very good with English :c ). 1. Isolate all the programs you want to start in one file, say "autostart.sh", and check with each program that is not currently running with "pgrep -f". You can help yourself with a function. Here is an example: '''' #!/bin/sh run() { if ! pgrep -f $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 ; # This old-fashioned redirection is unnecessary, you can remove or replace it with "&>/dev/null" then $@& fi } run picom run nitrogen --restore '''' At the end, you simply spawn "autostart.sh" inside rc.lua. You can find more information in the arch wiki 2. Use "awful.spawn.once()". This option is much more limited. The documentation mentions that it doesn't work with shell or terminal commands (E.g. "alacritty -e 'htop'", "while echo "Hello, world!"; do sleep 1s; done", etc.).

[@eniojuniorschutt2828]

In Awesome, when opening a fullscreen application, unfortunately, the status bar does not disappear. It is necessary to create a rule to make it disappear when the application is launched. I would like to make the bar to reappear after closing the application. (But it doesn't and I do not know the command to make it happen). And lastly, I would like that the status bar was hidden only for that application, not for all of them. This is the default in i3, but in awesome it is kind of cumbersome to achieve that.

[@eniojuniorschutt2828]

I solved it by inserting this code snippet into rc.lua: { rule = { class = "class-name-of-the-application" }, properties = { fullscreen = true }, callback = function(c) c.ontop = true awful.spawn.with_shell("sleep 0.1 && xdotool key Super_L+f") end },

[@okmanek69]

Can I set modkey (without "r" or any other additional key) to bring up a prompt?

[@makc]

Not sure. You could try removing the “r” part of the key binding in the config. I would be interested to know if you do get it working.

[@szenesiswebs3909]

You can. Just be sure to not set is as a press and hold.

[@Prophet6000]

When I use nitrogen it defaults back to the awesome default background after reload.

[@makc]

That’s awesome doing it’s thing. You can set a rule at the bottom of the rc.lua to change wallpaper on startup.

[@Onedeag-qw3yc]

There's so many things wrong with this video. There should be an updated one

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Hahaha that's the first thing that I learned is to get dmenu as my run menu. I'm trying to figure out how to get the menu to update seeing it's actually there. Know I don't need it but hell it's like the Mountain

[@cyanider069]

I wish I could use a tiling window maneger.

[@JuanLopez-db4cc]

please update the link to your wallpapers please? Thanks sir.

[@BrendonToogood]

awesome video looks easier than xmonad lol

[@makc]

Probably is, just because so much is pre-configured for users

[@langezeit6926]

The the standard awesome prompt has auto complete with tab

[@groolernetwork.2141]

for any "noob", i would recommend doing a base mint install and then put awesome in it

[@vladcykka1265]

Can you do a video on theming Awesomewm?

[@makc]

I'll look into it, thnx for watching.

[@williammckenzie22]

@@makc Same request as above. Installing and configuring things like brightness & volume control, network manager and other system tray thingies are confusing me. Great video btw. :)

[@celestialadministration]

Mad cool

[@celestialadministration]

Enjoy tutorial

[@gautamjoshi7436]

how to connect to wifi through awsome wm?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

or use nm-applet, which stays in the tray.

[@TarebossT]

or type in terminal nmtui

[@saptarshibhattacharya2505]

The flickering wad painful to watch otherwise good video

[@TheOriginalJoeBloggs]

Larbs [Luke Smith] dwm

[@Cookiekeks]

You forgot to add a theme

[@makc]

Indeed.

[@dougtilaran3496]

Dude knows more about Awefulwm than the devs. I'm allergic to it. Openbox forever

[@dougtilaran3496]

Put the bar on the bottom of the damn screen where it belongs

[@lukefrance9558]

Why does it belong there?

[@gatterlinux8426]

A full 23 min just to show us a autostart and a plugin ?!?!?!

[@makc]

It’s ridiculous

[@p4u1ro13]

pls more slow :S

[@plasmalife5532]

DT copy

[@chujwdupegooglowi2131]

downvote for the crazy communist in wallpapers, lol.

[@dougtilaran3496]

Awesome is not even close to being awesome.

[@makc]

Very insightful 👌

[@mackarof77]

default layout here, the second in list -- Each screen has its own tag table. awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s, awful.layout.layouts[2])