🌕 Beautiful & Aesthetic Dotfiles 🌑

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Beautiful & Aesthetic AwesomeWM Configuration Files!

Welcome to my AwesomeWM configuration files!

This is my personal collection of configuration files.

You might be here for looking my AwesomeWM configuration files? or looking for Linux Rice reference?

feel free to steal anything from here but don't forget to give me credits :)

AwesomeWM is the most powerful and highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X, Although it takes time and effort to configure it, but I'm very satisfied with the result.

This is a beautiful user interface isn't it?

These dotfiles are made with love, for sure.

❄️ ‎ Information

Here are some details about my setup:

• OS: Arch Linux
• WM: awesome
• Terminal: alacritty
• Shell: zsh
• Editor: neovim / vscode
• Compositor: picom
• Application Launcher: rofi
• Music Player ncmpcpp

AwesomeWM Modules:

• bling
  • Adds new layouts, modules, and widgets that try to primarily focus on window management
• rubato
  • Creates smooth animations with a slope curve for awesomeWM (Awestore, but not really)
• layout-machi
  • Manual layout for Awesome with an interactive editor

This repo has a wiki! You can check it by clicking here here.

🔧 ‎ Setup

⚠ WARNING ⚠
THIS DOTFILES ARE CONFIGURED AT 1366x768 WITH 96 DPI BUT IT WILL STILL WORK PERFECTLY IN HIGH RESOLUTION DONT WORRY JUST INSTALL THESE DOTFILES AND GIVE THIS REPO A STARS

This is step-by-step how to install these dotfiles. Just R.T.F.M.

1. Install Required Dependencies

First of all you should install the git version of AwesomeWM.

Arch users can use the awesome-git AUR package.

paru -S awesome-git

For other distros, build instructions are here.

Install necessary dependencies

Arch Linux (and other Arch-based distributions)

Assuming your AUR Helper is paru.

paru -Sy picom-git alacritty rofi todo-bin papirus-icon-theme acpi acpid acpi_call \
upower iw iproute2 wireless_tools jq inotify-tools polkit-gnome xdotool xclip \
brightnessctl alsa-utils alsa-tools pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa scrot redshift \
feh mpv mpd mpc mpdris2 ncmpcpp playerctl ffmpeg bluez-utils gpick --needed 

2. Install Needed Fonts

You will need to install a few fonts (mainly icon fonts) in order for text and icons to be rendered properly.

Necessary fonts:

• Iosevka - here
• Icomoon - here
• Material Icons - here
• FiraCode Nerd Font - here

Also you can find the required icon fonts inside the misc/fonts folder of this repository.

Once you download them and unpack them, place them into ~/.fonts or ~/.local/share/fonts

And run this command for your system to detect the newly installed fonts.

fc-cache -v

3. Install My AwesomeWM Dotfiles

Clone this repository

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rxyhn/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles && git submodule update --remote --merge

Copy config files

cp -r config/* ~/.config/

Finally, now you can login with AwesomeWM

Congratulations, at this point you have installed this aesthetic dotfiles! 🎉

Log out from your current desktop session and log in into AwesomeWM

🌊 ‎ Gallery

Simple, Minimalist and Modern Bar

Aesthetic Dashboard with neat grid layout and Notification Center

Control Center with many functions

Custom mouse-friendly ncmpcpp UI

Lockscreen with PAM Integration

🍀 ‎ Miscellaneous

Configure stuff

The relevant files are inside your ~/.config/awesome directory.

• User preferences and default applications

  In rc.lua there is a Default Applications section where user preferences and default applications are defined. You should change those to your liking.

Note: For the weather widgets to work, you will also need to create an account on openweathermap, get your key, look for your city ID, and set openweathermap_key and openweathermap_city_id accordingly.

Keybinds

I use super AKA Windows key as my main modifier. also with alt, shift, and ctrl

Keyboard

Keybind	Action
super + enter	Spawn terminal
super + grave	Spawn music client
super + d	Spawn application launcher
super + shift + w	Spawn web browser
super + shift + x	Spawn color picker
super + shift + f	Spawn file manager
super + shift + d	Toggle central panel
super + shift + t	Toggle system tray
super + q	Close client
super + x	Exit screen
super + ctrl + l	Lock screen
super + [1-0]	View tag AKA change workspace (for you i3/bsp folks)
super + shift + [1-0]	Move focused client to tag
super + space	Select next layout
super + s	Set tiling layout
super + shift + s	Set floating layout
super + c	Center floating client
super + [arrow keys]	Change focus by direction
super + f	Toggle fullscreen
super + m	Toggle maximize
super + n	Minimize
ctrl + super + n	Restore minimized
alt + tab	Window switcher

Mouse on the desktop

Mousebind	Action
left click	Dismiss all notifications
right click	Main menu
middle click	Toggle central panel
scroll up/down	Cycle through tags

For more information check awesome/configuration/keys.lua

VSCode

🌌 ‎ Aesthetic VSCode

Setup:

1. Install required extension

   • Customize UI
   • Carbon Product Icons

   note: You can use any themes, but some of the colors will be overwritten by mine

2. copy config file

   cp misc/vscode/User/settings.json ~/.config/Code/User
   

🗾 ‎ History

This started since when im feel bored, idk why i do this things, i love it but ahhh nvm, but basically im doing this just for fun and also to satisfy myself ofc, and also look for a lot of stargazers for sure. so if you like or are using these dotfiles you should give this repo a star right now! so i'll be more enthusiastic to make other beautiful and aesthetics things!

Thank you! <3

💸 ‎ TIP JAR

If you enjoyed it and would like to show your appreciation, you may want to tip me here.

It is never required but always appreciated.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart! ‎ 💗

💡 ‎ Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to

  • Contributors

    • rxyhn there's nothing wrong with thanking yourself right?
    • ner0z
    • paulhersch
    • ChocolateBread799
    • janleigh
    • rototrash

  • And for them, ofc.

    • elenapan
    • manilarome
    • JavaCafe01