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.
- Nate Cox ( @natecox@programming.dev ) English5•11 months ago
I wish I could upvote you twice; once for the picture and once for choosing to use “customization”.
- thelastknowngod ( @thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
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.
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.
- jackpot ( @jackpot@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
looks stunning
- Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
Question: do you like the text min/max/close buttons over colored circles or icons?
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.
- Andy ( @Andy@programming.dev ) 2•11 months ago
Nice! Color schemes?
- b0uldr ( @b0uldr@lemdro.id ) English3•11 months ago
I believe this is gruvbox
You are correct.
- gdaofb27584 ( @gdaofb27584@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
What code font do you use ? Also please share your font rendering
I use JetBrains Mono font. I am not sure what you meant by font rendering, so if you’re interested, you can check my dotfiles.
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 2•11 months ago
After 2 days of hard work understanding the API reference
Everyone that’s ever used AwesomeWM felt that. I felt that too.
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.- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 2•11 months 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.
- tarneo ( @tarneo@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
DIE