Category: Awesome

In this tutorial we are going to change the fonts. Normally we use noto fonts. But we can change the fonts as well. We will use the terminus fonts. Here are some terminal commands in regards with fonts 1 fc-list | grep Terminus...

This time we are going to change the font size. You have to change it in your theme lua. So it is to be changed in every theme. In the rc.lua you can change also the tagnames. We change the size of fonts and change the width and...

Sometimes you need to manually intervene to change the resolution in Awesome. He did recognize my screen resoltution on virtual box but NOT on bar metal aka my ssd. There is an easy way to set the right resolution with arandr....

We want to force Awesome to open an applicaton on a specific tagname and a specific screen. Dual screen users can use these settings. Or Multi screen users for that matter. As example we want to launch Atom always on screen 1...

We can set rules to set applications to float or tile. There are also rules to maximize applications. There is a long list of rules to check out. We will set a rule to maximize gpick and we will use xprop to find out the class....

Rc.lua is one of the most important files of Awesome.  This time we take a look at the keyboard shortcut keys. We have declared variables at the top like browser, terminal, mailclient etc… You change these variables and...

Super + W or right click on the menu you get the awesome menu. We can not change the icons. We do not use the menu but we left it in for you. Closing the menu is done with escape or again right mouse click. You can change the...

In this tutorial we will change the tagnames. We go over the variables that are declared in the rc.lua as well before we start changing the tagnames. You can change the icons any way you see fit. We use the awesome font to get...

Awesome is based on the LUA programming language. We will change the lua code and let awesome crash. Just one comma in the wrong place crashes the system. Then you will an error messagen and get the standard awesome...

The wallpaper “Galactus” comes in and we will use it to change our desktop accordingly. We choose a new icon theme and kill the conky. Atom is going to be my editor because of the lua syntax highlighting. We first...

We will use lxappearance to change the theme, icons and cursors. In the menu you can find it in “customize look and feel”. I rather like to use rofi with Super +F12 and choose ‘lxappearance’. We will...

Variety changes the wallpapers but also provides new wallpapers. Nitrogen changes the wallpapers but does NOT provide new wallpapers. Your updates for Awesome will come in at /etc/skel. Then we need to compare what we have and...

When we update awesome you will get a new package in. It will be saved to /etc/skel. We will never save it to your home directory. We use meld to compare what I have and what comes in from ArcoLinux. Nitrogen –restore has...

Ncmpcpp is a great way to play music from your music library from the terminal. There are lots of articles about ncmpcpp on the websites. Use the music note icon to launch and stop ncmpcpp. Right mouse click on the music note...

We will use atom (and extra packages : lua syntax, pigments and minimap) to change the themes. Search for the  word “theme” and change the theme by changing the number. We changed the weather to New York in the blue...

We will change the weather widget. It is now set to the weather of Belgium, Antwerp. We take a look at the top of theme.lua and checkout the variables that are defined at the top. Search for weather in the theme.lua to find the...

Navigating around in a windows tiling manager is different than in other windows managers. We have tagnames to put applications on and we learn the most important shortcuts. There is a very important shortcut to set your tiling...

We explain the advantage of variety. It sets your wallpaper but it also gets new wallpapers from desktoppr.co. Make an account there and sync the wallpapers to your dropbox. In autostart.sh we launch variety. If you do not want...

Every desktop has its own “headquarters”. A folder, where all the settings reside… 1 ~/.config/awesome With Super + S you get an overview of all the shortcuts that are available. Do not like the shortcuts....

We have installed our ArcoLinuxD with this tutorial and we have a github ready to backup our settings and scripts. Let us install ArcoLinuxD AWESOME together step by step. After logging in we type this command to get the best...

Starting with a clean install of ArcoLinuxD we install the AWESOME desktop on top of it and install all our applications on it. This desktop can be yours. Many tutorials are available. If you want you can learn to use github....