Customized this awesome surreal theme to fit my needs (also fixed few things) - https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles
Installation process is pretty much covered in the wiki of this repo, following are the detailed steps including various issues and their fix.
- naughty connect signal will not work with apt-get awesome (v4.3), build and install awesome from git.
- $ git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
- uncomment
deb-src
lines from/etc/apt/sources.list
- $ sudo apt build-dep awesome
- Following error were encountered on dirty (actively used for a while) Ubuntu 18.04, installation was smooth on fresh (brand new installation) Ubuntu 20.04.
- If there is unment dependency error, fix it (downgrade the packages) with $ sudo aptitude -f install packagename
- instead of
make package
try building first - $ mkdir build && cmake ..
- Fix the errors here using
aptitude -f install
- $ make
- Here LGI was missing, fixed it by installing
lua-lgi
- $ cd .. && make package
- $ sudo dpkg -i build/awesome*.deb
- $ sudo apt-get install rofi
- $ git clone https://github.com/yshui/picom.git
- $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpcre2-dev libpcre3-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev libx11-xcb-dev meson
- $ git submodule update --init --recursive
- $ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" meson --buildtype=release . build
- $ ninja -C build install
- $ sudo apt-get install light
- For Ubuntu 20.04 -
$ sudo apt-get install light
- For Ubuntu 18.04 follow - https://github.com/haikarainen/light and
install pre-built binaries
from release - $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install alsa-utils pulseaudio acpi acpid mpd mpc maim feh xclip xprop imagemagick blueman redshift xfce4-power-manager upower xdg-user-dirs iproute2 iw ffmpeg
- Follow the instructions below to install
- Read wiki from the-glorious-dotfiles and then
- $ git clone https://github.com/RMTT/lua-pam.git
- On Ubuntu, need dependency $ sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev
- Cmakelist needs to be modified as it needs
lua5.3
or less for awesome so modify Cmakelist- Ubuntu 20.04
include_directories( /usr/include/lua5.3 )
- Ubuntu 18.04
include_directories( /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/lua@5.3/include/lua5.3 ) link_directories( /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/lua@5.3/lib ) add_library(lua_pam SHARED ${SOURCE_DIR}/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(lua_pam lua.so.5.3.6 pam)
- Ubuntu 20.04
- curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
- nix-env -iA nixos.xidlehook
- Install
ranger
as it is used as file browser. - Install
w3m-img
for image preview in terminal.
- Wifi connection needs to be updated in configuration/config.lua
Misc: Various Issues fixed so far (maintaining for my reference as I couldn't push meaningful patched while ricing AWESOME)
-
App drawer rofi error, fixed by removing calc function and by hardcoding px in line 80 of
configuration/rofi/appmenu/rofi.rasi
-
Network connection status indication bug in
top panel
should be fixed by replacingconfig/awesome/surreal/widget/network/init.lua
with the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/C0D3-M4513R/the-glorious-dotfiles/257fa51424705665a607bbe68ef1fc361fcc747a/config/awesome/surreal/widget/network/init.lua -
Screen brightness control (light) has permission issue with Ubuntu 20,
$ sudo chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness $ sudo chmod 664 /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness $ sudo usermod -a -G video $USER
logout and login
-
Changed the fonts everywhere to use Hack Nerd (shipped with MY repo!)
-
settings does not open sometimes - use
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/control-center/
-
Added apps for wifi control -
nm-applet
-
Added notification to show when un-muted, same needs to be done for mute.
-
Connect mpc to youtube
$ mpc add `youtube-dl -g https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=r4mzEgCGa4Q`
- for alsa error ->
$ sudo alsa force-reload
- for frontend
ncmpcpp
-
Configured gpg and sync'd zsh history
-
Added top panel widget for VPN
- If not required comment out s.vpn in
layout/top-panel.lua
- Also modified ui to not showup in task list as it exists in tray when connected by adding rules
- class name of the application is obtained by
xprop
- If not required comment out s.vpn in
-
Added statup command to enable trackpad tapping,
$ xinput set-prop "$touchpad" "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1
- touchpad device is obtained by command
xinput list
-
Enabled natural scrolling through Xorg's settings
$ echo "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12" >> ~/.Xmodmap
-
Added notification for volume mute
-
Changed the low battery notification from 10% to 20%
-
To set tranparency in apps (like alacritty), use
transset
command, exampletransset 0.9
. -
Update control-center, info-center and help page width according to need, .config/awesome/layout/control-center/init.lua:173 .config/awesome/layout/info-center/init.lua:18 .config/awesome/configuration/keys/global.lua:8
-
Some floating windows does not respect xdpi, apps.lua should call
xrdb ~/.Xresources
at statup. -
Suspend needs sudo privilages, add
ragu ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl suspend
to/etc/sudoers
-
Install xsettingsd to enable auto light-dark mode switch
-
Install
darkman
and configure to start as serviceln -s ~/.config/darkman/dark-mode.d ~/.local/share/dark-mode.d
ln -s ~/.config/darkman/light-mode.d ~/.local/share/light-mode.d
-
Hardcoded floating window size of stocks widget in client rule.
-
Updated icons with Kannada font and forced the size of
theme.taglist_spacing = dpi(2)
in theme/default-theme.lua:159 andlocal icondpi = 5
in widget/tag-list/init.lua:70 to fit them appropriately