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Contents

1. Details
2. Dependencies
3. Installation
4. Folder Structure
5. Application Theming
6. Keybinds
7. Notes

Details

• Shell: ZSH
• WM: awesome
• Icons: Tela
• Cursor: xCursor Breeze Light
• Terminal: Alacritty

Dependencies

Dependency	Description
awesome-git	Window manager (Git version required for non stable Titlebar Dependency
feh	Fast image viewer used as wallpaper setting utility
picom-ibhagwan	Window compositor, eliminates screen tearing and allows for cool fade effects**
rofi	Application launcher
imagemagick	OPTIONAL BUT NEEDED IF USING A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND, used in config to generate blurred wallpaper

Optional Dependencies

These will improve the user experience but aren't required:

Dependency	Description
i3lock-color-git	Will be opened when the lock icon is selected in the exit window
acpi	Battery managing cli application, used by top bar widget to determine battery status
bluez , bluez-utils	Bluetooth cli application, used by top bar widget to determine if bluetooth is on
blueman	Bluetooth managing application, spawns when the bluetooth top panel icon is clicked
scrot	Screenshot tool, which is mapped to the Print Screen key in keys.lua. If you want to meet this dependency, ensure that the ~/Pictures folder exists, otherwise the program will save your screenshots to your home directory
deepin-screenshot	Screenshot tool that allows you to select a portion of the screen
alsa-utils	Provides kernel driven sound drivers, which the control of has been mapped to volume keys in keys.lua
sddm	Display Manager that displays the login

Fonts You Should Install

• Noto Sans: System font. Used in this config as the WM font. Also used as font for firefox
• MesloLGS: Terminal font, customized to work flawlessly with the zsh theme used, mentioned in the application theming section of the readme.

Installation

1. Ensure all dependencies are met
2. Clone this repository and place its contents into your .config folder
3. Define your desired default and startup applications (apps.lua), as well as network interfaces(widgets/network/init.lua)
4. Navigate to the awesome/wallpaper folder and place your desired wallpaper there as well as well as a blurred version. Use the convert command to Blur an image (Can be found in components/wallpaper.lua)

Awesome Folder File Structure

In order to avoid a poorly organized rc.lua spanning thousands of lines, it has been split into multiple files / folders. I have taken extra care to create a logical directory structure that will hopefully allow those new to awesomewm to have an easy time navigating it.

• rc.lua: The main script that runs when awesome starts. Defines theme and default applications, and selects them
• keys.lua: Contains keybinds
• rules.lua: Contains window rules
• theme.lua: Contains theme variables (colors, sizing, font, etc)
• icons: stores icons used in WM
• components: Folder that contains all of the components of the WM, such as panels, volume and brightness sliders, notification pop-ups, etc
• configuration: Contains theme-based config files for applications (ie rofi, picom, etc)
• widgets: Stores widgets used in the functionality of the components
• wallpaper: Where wallpaper and its blurred varient is generated / stored
• treetile: Contains a Repo to allow for the Treetiling Layout

Application Theming

Neovim

1. Ensure the nvim folder from the repo has been copied into the ~/.config directory
2. Install VimPlug with

curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

3. Open neovim and run :PlugInstall
4. Exit and reopen neovim

Zsh

1. Install oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

2. Change the zsh theme to powerlevel10k

• Download this font, and move it into your /usr/share/fonts directory
• Install powerlevel10k with the command below:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

• Open ~/.zshrc with your fave text editor
• Set ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k" and save the file

3. Install Plugins (Note that the ~/.zshrc edits are already done in this repo)

• Syntax highlighting (copy and paste the below command to install)

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  

  • Edit ~/.zshrc, add zsh-syntax-highlighting to the plugins section
• Autosuggestions (copy and paste the below command to install)

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  

  • Edit ~/.zshrc, add zsh-autosuggestions to the plugins section

4. Fini! Reopen the terminal to view the fruit of your labor

Keybinds

Note that the modkey is set to be the windows / command key. If you would like to use a different modkey check out the keys.lua file. If you are new to awesomewm, note that tag refers to workspace, and client refers to window. Shown below are the main keybinds that most users will care about.

Keyboard

• mod + enter: Spawn terminal
• mod + d: Spawn rofi (an application menu)
• mod + f: Make client fullscreen
• mod + m: Maximize client
• mod + n: Minimize client
• mod + shift + n: Unminimize client
• mod + [1-9]: Switch to tag [1-9]
• mod + shift + [1-9]: Move client to tag [1-9]
• mod + space: Change the tag layout, alternating between tiled, floating, and maximized
• mod + [up / down / left / right / h / j / k / l]: Change client by direction
• mod + Shift + [up / down / left / right / h / j / k / l]: Move client by direction
• mod + Control + [up / down / left / right / h / j / k / l]: Resize client by direction
• mod + Escape: Show exit screen

Mouse

• mod + drag with left click: Move client
• mod + drag with right click: Resize client

Notes

• Awesome API Documentation
• This configuration is based off of WillPower3309'sawesome-dotfiles and borrows most of its code
• The Titlebars used are the nice Titlebars because they allow for color matching to a client
• This configurations includes and makes use of the treetile layout in order to spawn clients to the right of the currently active client at all times
• For the volume control widget, I modified the code from volume-widget which is a part of awesome-wm-widgets
• In order to close popup windows when clicked outside of them, I included click_to_hide