What is this

My personalized configs for awesome window manager, optimized for an awesome experience.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• awesome the window manager itself
• rofi with rofi2k my preferred launcher
• compton/picom compositor, for transparency
• lxappearance for gtk styling
• copyq for clipboard management
• nitrogen for wallpapers
• light for display brightness
• amixer for volume management
• autorandr for multiple displays
• i3lock/i3lock-fancy for lockscreen in session widget

# Arch
sudo pacman -S awesome picom lxappearance copyq nitrogen light amixer autorandr rofi

# Debian
sudo apt install awesome picom lxappearance copyq nitrogen light amixer autorandr rofi

Setting up awesome2k

To get awesome2k, follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/awesome2k
ln -sfnv "$PWD/awesome2k" ~/.config/awesome

Widgets

Comes with a bunch of customized widgets:

• audio
• battery
• cpu
• disk
• network
• ram
• session
• text
• time
• todo

Theming

Add the following bash function to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file to customize awesome and rofi accent colors

accent() {
    color="#1688f0"

    if [[ \$1 == '#'* ]]; then
        color=\$1
    elif [ -z "\$1" ]; then
        color="#1688f0"
    else
        color="#\$1"
    fi

    sed -i "s/local accent.*/local accent = '$color'/" ~/.config/awesome/awesome2k.lua
    sed -i "s/selected.*/selected:       $color;/" ~/.config/rofi/themes/shared/colors.rasi
    echo 'awesome.restart()' | awesome-client
}

# Example usage: accent #454ec5

You can also install pastel and combine it with the accent function to pick and set any colour on your screen as accent

accent $(pastel pick | pastel format hex)

Using awesome2k

Hit Super + / key to view keyboard shortcuts.

Inspiration

After using KDE for a long time with tiling support and struggling with config management, finally decided to switch to awesome.

How it was built

awesome2k was built using nvim

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More Info

• sway2k — Spiritual successor, Wayland based tiling wm configs