JavaCafe01 / Dotfiles

NOTICE: My configuration for AwesomeWM only works on the latest git master branch. On Arch based distros, all you would have to do is install awesome-git from the AUR. On others, you will have to build it manually.

Setup

This repository has submodules, so make sure you clone it correctly:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/JavaCafe01/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
git submodule update --remote --merge

Dependencies

The following aren't really dependencies (some are), but they are what you need to clone my setup exactly.

I use awestore for my panel animation. Look at the repo for install instructions. In short, you just have to use luarocks and do this: sudo luarocks --lua-version 5.3 install awestore

I use Arch Linux, so all the packages I list can be directly installed with an AUR helper like paru or yay. The -git packages are ones directly from their git master branch.

Packages/Programs

paru -Sy awesome-git zsh tmux picom-git neovim-nightly-bin rofi playerctl nautilus discord imagemagick giph farge-git colorpicker-ym1234-git lm_sensors acpid pulseaudio inotify-tools acpilight bat firefox ncspot

Also, I use a custom build of st. It should be cloned if you set up the submodules properly. Make sure you follow the instructions in my repo of st.

Note: Most of these packages are not needed.

(If I'm missing anything, please submit an issue or pull request)

Fonts

paru -Sy ttf-fira-code nerd-fonts-fira-code noto-fonts-emoji-blob

Modules

⭐️ bling ⭐️

Bling brings extra utilities to AwesomeWM such as tabs, swallowing, layouts, and flash focus. Please check it out and give it a star!

awestore

As said in the readme -

This library is built off the concept of stores from Svelte. A store is a simple table that can be subscribed to, notifying intrested parties whenever the stored value changes. Using this module, I can create a sliding animation for my panel.

layout-machi

This module is a powerful manual layout that contains an amazing editor to change and make layouts and window locations. It's for powerusers and gives full control of the layout. Give it a star! To the right is a demo of how layout-machi works (this is not its full potential, I'm a noob with it).

System Info

• OS: Arch
• Shell: zsh
• Terminal: st
• Browser: firefox
  • firefox-css
• Music: ncspot
• GTK Theme: phocus
• File Manager: nautilus
• App Menu: rofi
• Wallpapers: my current wallpaper is under images in the awesome folder, but for all of the ones I have used you can find them here

Common Questions

Where did I steal ears from?

It was taken from elenapan.

How to get anti-aliased rounded corners?

To start off, I do not round any corners with picom or any other fork. I round with AwesomeWM. If you round a widget and lay that ontop of another widget, the corners or anti-aliased (AA). Using this fact, all my panels and notifications are rounded widgets which contain a bottom transparent layer. For the clients, you do the same thing but with titlebars.

But how did I get shadows? Usually, when you add shadows, it shadows the transparent widget as well, like this:

In picom, if you edit the wintypes option by adding full-shadow = true for every window type you need, you will fix that problem:

wintypes:
{
# ...
    normal = {full-shadow = true;};
# ...
};

Here is the result:

Currently I don't have shadows, but I can easily just enable it in picom and still retain my AA corners.