Awesome-Backup

Offered:

The basic/important part of awesome's config. (you don't need to seperate the whole rc.lua into parts anymore)
Clean setup with titlebar.. But without the bar
volume & brightness lib
More cleaner config (atleast it's better than my previous config)

Guide

How do you start ricing awesome?

Separating the default config can a good starting point. However, the process of it can be very annoying.

But thankfully, I've done that horrendous job.

you can get the pre-config files by clone it from here into $HOME/.config/awesome/

git clone https://github.com/rklyz/Awesome-Backup.git
mkdir $HOME/.config/awesome
cp -r Awesome-Backup/awesome/* $HOME/.config/awesome/

Next, go to awesome.main.apps and change the variables to your preferences.

Now what?

After you've logged in into awesome window manager, you'll find an empty desktop applied with a wallpaper. (if i'm not wrong)

Now you can start 'ricing' your desktop bit by bit.

Creating a BAR

Create a dir inside awesome.misc and a file "init.lua" inside it

mkdir $HOME/.config/awesome/misc/bar
touch $HOME/.config/awesome/misc/bar/init.lua

inside awesome.misc.bar.init

-- require some awesome libraries
local awful = require "awful"
local wibox = require "wibox"
local gears = require "gears"
local beautiful = require "beautiful"

-- Creating a bar
local the_bar = wibox { -- We're creating a bar named "the_bar"
  ontop = true,
  visible = true,
  width = awful.screen.focused().geometry.width, -- focused screen's width
  height = 40,
  type = 'dock'
}

the_bar : struts {top = 60, bottom = 20, left = 10, right = 10} -- Create the gap between apps and the screen in tiling mode

References:

Try refreshing awesome and see if the bar works.

...

ofcourse it did not work. Cause you haven't actually run it.

To make it work, you need to run it through rc.lua.

...

-- init widget
require "misc"
require "misc.bar" -- This line

...

Now it should be working. However, it's just a blank boring bar. Let's put some widgets into it!

Creating a clock widget

Lets create a file name clock.lua inside awesome.misc.bar folder

touch $HOME/.config/awesome/misc/bar/clock.lua

inside clock.lua

-- require some awesome libraries
local awful = require "awful"
local wibox = require "wibox"
local gears = require "gears"
local beautiful = require "beautiful"

-- Creating a clock
local clock = wibox.widget.textbox()
clock.font = "Roboto 14"

-- Create a function for updating the time
local function update_time()
  time = os.date("%H:%M")
  clock.markup = time
end

-- Timer
gears.timer {
  timeout = 60,          -- update every X second
  autostart = true,      -- start automatically
  call_now = true,       -- run callback when timer is created
  callback = function()
    update_time()
  end
}

return clock -- This is IMPORTANT

references:

Now, inside of awesome.misc.bar.init

...
local beautiful = require "beautiful"

-- Get some widgets
local clock = require "misc.bar.clock" -- get the clock widget

local the_bar = wibox {
        ontop = true,
        visible = true,
        width = awful.screen.focused().geometry.width,
        height = 40,
        type = 'dock'
}

the_bar : struts {top = 60, bottom = 20, left = 10, right = 10}

the_bar : setup {
  nil,   -- Left part of the bar
  nil,   -- Middle part ^
  clock, -- Right part ^
  layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
}

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