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  1. My configuration for Awesome
  2. Dependencies
  3. Downloading
  4. Installation
  5. Copyright and licensing

My configuration for Awesome

This distribution includes my configuration for Awesome window manager.

Home page for the Awesome configuration is at http://solitudo.net/software/awesome/config/. The configuration is also listed at the User Configuration Files page in Awesome wiki.

The configuration supports following features

  • Menu support using awesome-freedesktop
    • freedesktop.org applications menu with icons
    • Debian menu
    • Awesome menu
      • Theme selection.
        • List of themes is automatically populated from the themes installed under ~/.config/awesome/themes.
        • Symlink ~/.config/awesome/current_theme points to the selected theme
    • System menu for lock screen, logout, reboot, and shutdown

  • Autostarting of programs under ~/.config/awesome/autostart directory. For example, you can populate this directory with symlinks to the real applications like /usr/bin/xscreensaver. See this sample of my ~/.config/awesome/autostart:

    (03:48:36)(tj@ganga)(~/.config/awesome)$ ls -al ~/.config/awesome/autostart/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 tj staff 4096 Jan 11 00:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 tj staff 4096 Jan 23 03:48 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   18 Aug 24 10:13 evolution -> /usr/bin/evolution
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   16 Aug 24 10:13 firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   17 Aug 24 10:13 gnome-do -> /usr/bin/gnome-do
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   23 Aug 24 10:13 gnome-terminal -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   17 Sep 15 01:44 nautilus -> /usr/bin/nautilus
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   19 Sep 19 14:33 pulseaudio -> /usr/bin/pulseaudio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   18 Sep  4 10:45 rhythmbox -> /usr/bin/rhythmbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj users   28 Jan 11 00:26 tomboy.sh -> /home/staff/tj/bin/tomboy.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tj staff   21 Aug 24 10:13 xscreensaver -> /usr/bin/xscreensaver

  • Host-specified rc.$HOSTNAME.lua is loaded if found under ~/.config/awesome.

    • Allows e.g. host-specified widget configuration to be built easily without changes to the main rc.lua on each machine.
  • Wibox with the following features
    • Awesome menu
    • Tag selector
    • Command prompt
    • Window list
    • Systray support
    • Support for Delightful widgets
    • Layout display and selection
  • Default key bindings with some extras
    • Mod4 + x evaluate Lua code removed
    • Mod4 + t to toggle titlebar of a client
    • Mod4 + q to display client selection menu
    • Mod4 + Shift + Tab to switch to focus previous client
    • Mod4 + Insert to move floating window up
    • Mod4 + Home to move floating window down
    • Mod4 + Delete to move floating window left
    • Mod4 + End to move floating window right
    • Mod4 + PageUp to resize floating window bigger
    • Mod4 + PageDown to resize floating window smaller
  • Rules to run many applications in floating mode by default

Dependencies

The configuration requires following external dependencies

The following dependencies are included as Git submodules

Delightful in requires a few external dependencies and provides some dependencies as submodules. See the Delightful README for more info. The distribution of the configuration comes with ready symlinks pointing to the Delightful dependencies so after downloading the submodules, no other actions are required to make the dependencies work.

Downloading

Themes can be downloaded by cloning the public Git repository at git://scm.solitudo.net/tj-awesome-config.git. Gitweb interface is available at http://scm.solitudo.net/gitweb/public/tj-awesome-config.git.

Installation

  1. $ mv ~/.config/awesome ~/.config/awesome-old
  2. $ git clone git://scm.solitudo.net/tj-awesome-config.git ~/.config/awesome
  3. $ cd ~/.config/awesome && git submodule init
  4. $ cd ~/.config/awesome && git submodule update
  5. $ cd ~/.config/awesome/submodules/delightful && git submodule init
  6. $ cd ~/.config/awesome/submodules/delightful && git submodule update
  7. $ cp ~/.config/awesome/rc.HOSTNAME.lua.sample ~/.config/awesome/rc.$HOSTNAME.lua
  8. $ vi ~/.config/awesome/rc.$HOSTNAME.lua

Copyright and licensing

Copyright: © 2011 Tuomas Jormola tj@solitudo.net http://solitudo.net

Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.0.