Part 7b- awesome window manager - See what's awesome on Debian Stable

[@susanpinochet]

Wow. You're doing a good job of showing how powerful these window managers are. The options are better than I had thought after seeing some other demos. Thanks for you time and effort.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

You're so welcome!

[@edbeckerich3737]

Man o man, you make Awesome look very cool. I ran it for a bit years ago, I am going to try again...

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Go for it!

[@thesaigoneer]

Great stuff Drew, thanks so much! Awesome was my first window manager, back in 2020, I used for about 6 months and moved on. What did I know ;-) Now, with dwm, hyprland, dk et al under my belt these videos make me really want to revisit it again. Once again, thanks!

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Good stuff! dwm, hyprland and dk? Nice! Sticking to the best.

[@rc2276]

Great video. I just stay on i3, it's comfortable and easy. Very similar to awesomewm.

[@donaldwilliams6821]

You made me install awesome on my Arch laptop :)

[@JustAGuyLinux]

I do not have that power. You clearly wanted to.. ;)

[@gizzmoguy.]

Thanks for making these videos they help a lot. Your time and effort is appreciated.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

You're welcome. Fun for me.

[@Viken43]

I love these videos and Awesome seems to have all the toys built in. The changes you have made make it run more like i3/DWM but I do like the key bind cheat sheet which is very handy. Thanks for sharing ;-)

[@ytbone9430]

Question to the pros: If I want to run an application (Amiberry) directly from terminal (no x server loaded I guess, did not enter "startxfce4" yet e.g.), is that possible? It seems so, the thing is, I can't move the mouse pointer or use the keyboard, nothing happens. What is required to use mouse, keyboard and USB game pads in this mode, do I need to install specific packages (Debian this is). Has this mode a name, where there is no desktop loaded, but a GUI application is running? I want Amiberry to run like "Emulation Station" on Batocera runs e.g., it also seems to run without launching into desktop mode. I wonder what screenmode / resolution will be used when launching a program this way. Is there documentation on this somewhere, I had some searching, but did not find useful information on that (might be I don't know the name of that mode yet?). Or do I need at least some kind of minimal window manager to make this work? Can a window manager run without a desktop and login manager? It's a bit difficult to get behind these concepts and any dependencies between these parts of the GUI experience on Linux. I'm tinkering with Linux for quite some time now, but this still raises a lot of questions for me! o) Any help appreciated, thank you in advance! o)

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Dude. I looked up Amiberry because I had no idea what it was. I am going to give an opinion with very little knowledge about emulators or gaming in general. But, I would guess that this is not going to work without a display server running like xorg or wayland. Beyond that wayland may not be compatible. Since you mentioned xfce, I would attempt to run the emulator inside xfce desktop environment. Again, just a guess. You do not have to use a login manager. Many users login to the tty and start the window manager manually (i.e. startx). But to run even a simple window manager like openbox, you still need xorg installed.

[@ytbone9430]

@@JustAGuyLinux Hello! o) Ok, thank you for taking the time. I think I want to use the framebuffer only, it seems possible to get along without an X server instance and window manager. I was thinking you or anyone reading here would know how to do it. Running the emulator with XFCE is not a problem, but I need to squeeze every bit of performance out of the little thin client for the emulation part. Appreciate your help, thank you and see you soon! o)

[@jasonbourne757]

How do I change the theme of all apps to particular theme in i3 please help. I tried installing the catpuccin theme and it doesn't even show up in the lxappearance app, it's things like this we newbies need help with, please help me.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Not sure, but make sure the theme in in your ~/.themes directory and that the index.theme file located in the theme name directory. ex. /home/$USER/.themes/catpuccin/index.theme is present.

[@jasonbourne757]

@@JustAGuyLinux thank you I'll check out