My awesome config
It’s not like I know what I’m doing or anything. But at least I’m having fun.
Requirements
- awesomewm provides the window manager of course
- Vicious adds a widget framework
- dex to generate and execute DesktopEntry files
- Awesome-Freedesktop for an XDG-friendly app menu
- Lain provides layouts, widgets, and utilities
- Xephyr to quality check my config
When I’m sitting in front of an Arch-based system:
//- Install awesomewm and related packages
yay -S awesome vicious dex lain-git awesome-freedesktop-git xorg-server-xephyrTesting
Until I figure out a proper path to automated testing, I launch awesome in a Xephyr nested X server.
//- Preview awesome config
Xephyr :5 & sleep 1 ; DISPLAY=:5 awesome -c code/linux/awesome/rc.luaIt’s not perfect, but at least it will tell me whether my config contains any immediately obvious errors.