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[Awesome WM] My First Customisation (feddit.nl)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
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I tried AwesomeWM two days ago, and after two days of hard work understanding the API reference, I came up with this. More screenshots are below.

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[+] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I used to be in love with Awesome but I think it's been more than 10 years since I used it last. I remember the software being wonderful and the people in the people in the community being stereotypical, smug, "rtfm" types.. That was more frustrating than anything else about Awesome.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    I experienced this too. That's why I stopped asking them anything after my first query (why my keybindings were not working when defined in another file) and relied on guess work. I also found the community kind of dead, so you don't actually get the answers quicker than the guess work will get you there.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Nice! Color schemes?

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    looks stunning

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I loved the color pallet 💝

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    After 2 days of hard work understanding the API reference

    Everyone that's ever used AwesomeWM felt that. I felt that too.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I had to look through the source code of their widgets (like wibox.widget.textclock, awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton) they use in their default config file to have a grasp of what's happening. Looking through others' dotfiles was more pain because it's not supposed to be looked upon by the beginners, so they cram all they know in a few lines and leave you guessing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yeah. I found it quite painful, having to go through and find all I needed. The hardest part for me was underlines. I wanted my focused workspace to be underlined. It was very difficult tp figure out and the solution is ultimately a hack, but it works.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    DIE

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Question: do you like the text min/max/close buttons over colored circles or icons?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Yes, I like text more than visual icons. More proof is given by the fact that I used words like cpu, mem, net over the thousands of icons I could've used instead, considering that the font I am using is a Nerd Font patched one.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What code font do you use ? Also please share your font rendering

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