ArchLabs Awesome

A customized AwesomeWM config meant to be used on a clean ArchLabs installation. It is in a usable state but still a work in progress! Please do not hesitate to open an issue if you encounter bugs or if you have any suggestion for this theme.

Installation

After installing ArchLabs:

sudo pacman -S awesome pamac inotify-tools git # Install needed software
git clone https://github.com/elenapan/archlabs-awesome.git
cp -rT archlabs-awesome ~ # Copy files to home directory. WARNING: THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING FILES!
xrdb ~/.Xresources # Load xrdb settings
fc-cache # Refresh font cache
rm ~/.git ~/screenshots # Delete the repo's non needed folders

Extra packages and why they are needed

1. pamac: GUI frontend for pacman

   Launched by clicking the update widget.

2. inotify-tools: Monitors file modifications

   Monitors power supply status (plugged/unplugged) in order to update the battery widget icon.

TODOs in order of priority

• Calendar widget
• Layout indicator widget
• hjkl equivalent keybinds for all arrow keybinds
• Update button: add text or tooltip (e.g. '34 packages need to be updated')
• Update button: icon and color should change depending on whether or not there are any updates
• Generate window buttons dynamically instead of using images (will allow buttons to change color according to the xrdb colors)
• Volume notifications
• Network widget should change icon depending on type of connection (wired/wireless)
• Add night mode widget (will require redshift or clight to be installed)
• Test sidebar with multiple monitors
• Prettier right click menu
• Check if garbage collection can be done with a Lua timer instead of awful.widget.watch
• Remove (if titlebar buttons provide that info) or prettify tasklist client modifiers (floating, ontop, etc)
• Alt tab widget (in order to justify removing bottom bar and increase available vertical space)
• Clean up code (remove TODOs and random notes)

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