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#Lua #AwesomeWM
Как вы думаете, насколько этот модуль будет бесполезен? Или норм?

#Lua #AwesomeWM
Как вы думаете, насколько этот модуль будет бесполезен? Или норм?

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

A few months of evenings and the first trailer is out!

somewm-one (rc.lua + themes) and somewm-shell (Quickshell desktop shell), both running on SomeWM, a full port of AwesomeWM to Wayland on wlroots 0.19. Sliding tags, multi-monitor, portrait,
SceneFX. Daily driver.

Preview, not a stable release yet, but the direction is clear.

📺 https://youtu.be/QCiAMZFddSc
🧵 raven2cz/somewm-one
🐚 raven2cz/somewm-shell
🐙 trip-zip/somewm (upstream)

#wayland #linux #awesomewm #ricing

A few months of evenings and the first trailer is out!

somewm-one (rc.lua + themes) and somewm-shell (Quickshell desktop shell), both running on SomeWM, a full port of AwesomeWM to Wayland on wlroots 0.19. Sliding tags, multi-monitor, portrait,
SceneFX. Daily driver.

Preview, not a stable release yet, but the direction is clear.

📺 https://youtu.be/QCiAMZFddSc
🧵 raven2cz/somewm-one
🐚 raven2cz/somewm-shell
🐙 trip-zip/somewm (upstream)

#wayland #linux #awesomewm #ricing

I've never used tiling window managers like i3 (https://i3wm.org/) or awesome (https://awesomewm.org/) on my workstations. Perhaps I'm wrong, and I should definitely give them a try and always use them in the future. But for several years now, I've been using a different compromise: instead of tiling the entire screen, I tile the space only in the terminal using tmux and this config (https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux).

#tmux #terminal #xfwm #Tiling #WindowManagers #i3wm #awesomewm

I made a second attempt to migrate from #AwesomeWM to #Hyprland. It was not very straightforward, mostly because of the #x11 -> #wayland switch with an #NVIDIA #GPU.
I’m actually enjoying it, and I’m not even using waybar.

#Linux #Ricing #AwesomeWM
Мой любимый оконник теперь на wayland?
Nani? Снова?

(somewm)

#Linux #Ricing #AwesomeWM
Мой любимый оконник теперь на wayland?
Nani? Снова?

(somewm)

Got a fennel repl running in a live session of awesome.

Had to do some troubleshooting to find out why the "message" option to the repl wasn't messaging. Turns out it is a recent addition and I was running on an older version of fennel. Everything works in 1.6

#awesomewm #fennel

Got a fennel repl running in a live session of awesome.

Had to do some troubleshooting to find out why the "message" option to the repl wasn't messaging. Turns out it is a recent addition and I was running on an older version of fennel. Everything works in 1.6

#awesomewm #fennel

@XLibreDev

#XLibre #ManjaroLinux combo experiment btw. Working on a custom Awesome WM Manjaro spin with XLibre integration in manjaro-hello. Still WIP but showing promise! ISO at https://github.com/megvadulthangya/manjaro-awesome-iso #XLibreArchWeek #AwesomeWM

@XLibreDev

#XLibre #ManjaroLinux combo experiment btw. Working on a custom Awesome WM Manjaro spin with XLibre integration in manjaro-hello. Still WIP but showing promise! ISO at https://github.com/megvadulthangya/manjaro-awesome-iso #XLibreArchWeek #AwesomeWM

After wandering in the window manager wilderness for years, I reinstalled #Gnome today. It seems a bit more robust than I remember and more importantly, is a lot less demanding than #awesomewm on my time.

Eventually I may end up cycling back to being a MacOS user who never changes the defaults. Not sure how to feel about that.

#linux

After wandering in the window manager wilderness for years, I reinstalled #Gnome today. It seems a bit more robust than I remember and more importantly, is a lot less demanding than #awesomewm on my time.

Eventually I may end up cycling back to being a MacOS user who never changes the defaults. Not sure how to feel about that.

#linux

According to vaxry https://x.com/vaxryy, switching from #Hyprland to #bspwm might be a crime https://x.com/hyprwm/status/1971576262327173321 :-). As seen below, one could also switch to something less criminal on #XLibre like #awesomewm. Or #dwm. Or ... ;-)

More #liberatedscreens at https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/211

According to vaxry https://x.com/vaxryy, switching from #Hyprland to #bspwm might be a crime https://x.com/hyprwm/status/1971576262327173321 :-). As seen below, one could also switch to something less criminal on #XLibre like #awesomewm. Or #dwm. Or ... ;-)

More #liberatedscreens at https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/211

Have been experimenting with #awesomewm but not sure what add-ons are good in this ecosystem.

I like that it's in #lua because I use WezTerm and Neovim, having one configuration language to rule them all is neat.

How can I configure it to work similarly to #i3 with Polybar add-ons etc? I don't care that much about visual effects; only speed and good workflows.

#Linux

Have been experimenting with #awesomewm but not sure what add-ons are good in this ecosystem.

I like that it's in #lua because I use WezTerm and Neovim, having one configuration language to rule them all is neat.

How can I configure it to work similarly to #i3 with Polybar add-ons etc? I don't care that much about visual effects; only speed and good workflows.

#Linux

#Linux #RiverWM #Awesomewm
Заменил rivertile на filtile. Теперь свойства прикреплены не ко всем тегам. Они уникальны. Теперь размер окон, границы и прочее - всё это уникально. ​:blobcatcomfsip:​
Хоть что-то полезное.

Также пытался сделать Vim-like комбинации. Получилось не очень. Ибо в vim'е кроме обычных v, G, i, a и пр. есть последовательные комбинации клавиш. Пример: 5g, 2d, gg, d32j, V48jd и пр., где регистр учитывается.
Для AwesomeWM уже давно как есть плагины как modalawesome или awesome-modalbind. RiverWM встроенно поддерживает различные "моды". Можно также приклеить на одну букву вызов терминала, браузер и прочее. Но вот с последовательными кейбиндами жёпа. ​:blobcatcomfsip:​

Надо думать, разбираться, сочинять.

Heavily considering giving #niri a try after #paperwm has been causing some stability issues lately. I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to a non-DE setup though (ran #openbox and #awesomewm back in the day). Niri sure is tempting though :-)

Heavily considering giving #niri a try after #paperwm has been causing some stability issues lately. I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to a non-DE setup though (ran #openbox and #awesomewm back in the day). Niri sure is tempting though :-)

I thought I was going crazy. #Thunderbird showed a notification about a new #email, but when I clicked on it to go to my inbox, there was no email there.
It turned out that the system pop-ups from #awesomewm now show quick actions, and either I periodically click on delete, or the clicks themselves are counted incorrectly.
In short, I found a bunch of important emails in the trash 😞

@civodul I use #guix and #awesomewm

Nah, nah, nah nah nahhhhhh...

@civodul I use #guix and #awesomewm

Nah, nah, nah nah nahhhhhh...

Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).

Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).

Spent almost a day to make my #AwesomeWM theme not hurt my eyes anymore. Quite happy with the result.

#linux

Spent almost a day to make my #AwesomeWM theme not hurt my eyes anymore. Quite happy with the result.

#linux

#Linux #Ricing #AwesomeWM #unixporn
Finally!
Dynamic theme! ​:blobcatcool:​

#Linux #Ricing #AwesomeWM
Сменил цветовую схему.
Вроде cool ​:blobcatcool:​

#Linux #Ricing #AwesomeWM
Сменил цветовую схему.
Вроде cool ​:blobcatcool:​

I don't know if it's because of all the months I've spent using and configuring #AwesomeWM or because #python is so much more powerful and easy to read and write than #lua (at least to me), but in the last couple of days I've been giving a shot at #qtile and it's just great.

It took me just a few hours to replicate my Awesome set up, and although people really like to say "python == slow", it feels smoother and snappier than any other TWM I've used so far.

Kudos to Qtile!

#linux #archlinux

What am I up to these days?

Learning #React 🤓

Lifting weights 🏋️‍♂️

Configuring #AwesomeWM 🐧

Surviving the British winter. 🌧️

Following tech news like a good TV Series, but scary real 🤯

In not particular order.

#now

Last change on the software side of my dev setup was to start using #PaperWM. It’s so awesome! It’s fast, smooth, has exactly what I need from a window manager, and it’s rock solid. In the past I’ve been using #awesomewm, #xmonad, #i3wm and while I liked them all better than classic floating WMs, only PaperWM feels exactly like what I always needed. And, on a 120hz display its quick animations look fantastic.

#linux #awesomewm #ricing
Похоже, мне пора переименновывать widget в нечто понятное... ​:ablobfoxdundundun:​​:ablobfoxdundundun:​​:ablobfoxdundundun:​

#Linux #AwesomeWM #Ricing
Пока пустовато, но более-менее разобрался...

Только код "говна" какой-то, но да ладно.