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[Awesome WM] My First Customisation (feddit.nl)
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I tried AwesomeWM two days ago, and after two days of hard work understanding the API reference, I came up with this. More screenshots are below.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After 2 days of hard work understanding the API reference

Everyone that's ever used AwesomeWM felt that. I felt that too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I had to look through the source code of their widgets (like wibox.widget.textclock, awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton) they use in their default config file to have a grasp of what's happening. Looking through others' dotfiles was more pain because it's not supposed to be looked upon by the beginners, so they cram all they know in a few lines and leave you guessing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah. I found it quite painful, having to go through and find all I needed. The hardest part for me was underlines. I wanted my focused workspace to be underlined. It was very difficult tp figure out and the solution is ultimately a hack, but it works.