awesomewm-configuration

My personal AwesomeWM configuration for work and daily tasks 👨🏼‍💻

ℹ️ Details

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• 🐧 OS: EndeavourOS
• 🧑‍💻 Terminal: Kitty
• 🌙 Icons: Küyen
• 🔡 Fonts
  • Regular: Manrope
  • Monospace: JetBrains Mono Slashed
  • Icons: Material Symbols Rounded and jetbrains-mono-nerd
• ▶ Video wallpaper here
• 📄 Rest of .dotfiles here

✨ Features

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• 🎨 Custom color scheme taken from Xresources, available as vscode theme here.
• 💻🖥 Multiple screen support (vertical screen in progress).
• 🎬 Simple animations with Rubato and this picom fork.

Optional features

• ⏯ Auto-pausing video wallpaper.
• 🎶 Media controls with dominant colors.
• 📅 Google Calendar events.

⚙ Installation

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Tested on Asus G14 (2020) with EndeavourOS

Install dependencies

pikaur -S awesome-git \
acpi acpid acpi_call upower \
pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse playerctl pamixer jq \
brightnessctl networkmanager  \

# autostarted
polkit-gnome blueman network-manager-applet redshift-minimal \
picom-simpleanims-git diodon fusuma ulauncher \

# extra packages
lxappearance-gtk3 qt5ct-kde \
flameshot pavucontrol asusctl rog-control-center \

# for optional features
mpv xwinwrap-git \
python-pipx \
gcalendar \

--needed

Clone the proyect

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pablonoya/awesomewm-configuration

To obtain the color theme, copy or replace my Xresources file to

$HOME/.Xresources

Move the configuration folder to awesome directory

mv awesomewm-configuration $HOME/.config/awesome

Set your latitude and longitude in theme/theme.lua for redshift and optional weather widget.

theme.latitude = 12.345
theme.longitude = -67.890

Activate the optional features

Auto pausing Video wallpaper

Set Video paths in theme/theme.lua, vertical video is optional and it's used on vertical screens.

-- Video wallpaper
theme.videowallpaper_path = HOME .. "/videos/cyberpunk-city-pixel.mp4"
theme.videowallpaper_vertical_path = HOME .. "/videos/cyberpunk-city-pixel-vertical.mp4"

Media controls with dominant colors

Install my dominantcolors script with pipx.

pipx install git+https://github.com/pablonoya/dominantcolors.git

Set the script path.

-- Dominantcolors script path
theme.dominantcolors_path = HOME .. "/.local/bin/dominantcolors"

Google Calendar events

Set gcalendar command with your account and output as json.

-- gcalendar command
theme.gcalendar_command = "gcalendar --account personal --output json"

Weather

Set your OpenWeather API key.

-- OpenWeather api key
theme.weather_api_key = "yourapikeyhere"

🖼 Gallery

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Information Docks: Calendar + Google calendar events, Weather and Notification Center

Control center

Controls	Monitors

Media controls with dominant colors in top bar and control center

Combined taglist + tasklist

With Bling previews!

Tag preview	Client preview

Lockscreen with word clock colorized by time of day

Dawn	Midday	Night

Some popups

Volume	Layout

Mic on	Mic off

Keyboard shortcuts

Exit screen

🤍 Acknowledgments

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• rxyhn
• Crylia
• Kasper24
• elenapan