NEWM

The ultimate NEWM configuration (A Desktop Environment Like Experience)

Overview

newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. The idea is, instead of placing windows inside the small viewport (that is, the monitor) to arrange them along an arbitrarily large two-dimensional wall (generally without windows overlapping) and focus the compositors job on moving around along this wall efficiently and providing ways to the user to rearrange the wall such that he finds the overall layout intuitive.

Operating System : Archcraft
Window Manager : Newm
Status Bar : Waybar
Launcher : Wofi
Session Manager : Wlogout
Notifications : Mako
Terminal : Foot
File Manager : Thunar
Text Editor : Geany
Web Browser : Firefox

Installation

Get the files from : Ko-fi ☕ ^{Why Paid}
Extract The file newm.tar.gz with : tar -xzvf newm.tar.gz
If you are using Archcraft (Required: 2023 or later) as your OS, You can just install the provided package with : sudo pacman -U archcraft-newm-2.0-0-any.pkg.tar.zst
If you want to install this setup on Arch Linux or on any other distro, follow the points below :
- Install the following programs on your computer: newm, wtype alacritty wlroots wl-clipboard waybar wofi foot mako grim slurp wf-recorder light yad wlogout thunar geany mpv mpd mpc viewnior imagemagick xfce-polkit xorg-xwayland xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
- After installing programs above, Create newm directory in ~/.config : mkdir -p ~/.config/newm
- Copy Everything from dotfiles/config to ~/.config/newm : cp -r ./dotfiles/config/* ~/.config/newm/
- To launch Newm properly on your system, install the additional files provided in shared directory :
```
sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/open-wl /usr/local/bin/open-wl
sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/run_newm /usr/local/bin/run_newm
sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/00-lock.sh /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/00-lock.sh
```
- Logout and login to your amazingly configured Newm.

Appearance

Install the following theme, icon pack, cursors and fonts for overall appearance.

GTK Theme : Nordic gtk theme
Icon Theme : Qogir icon theme
Cursor Theme : Qogir cursor theme
Fonts : JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, Iosevka Nerd Font, Icomoon Feather, Archcraft

Config Structure

~/.config
└── newm              : Newm config directory
    ├── foot          : Terminal config
    ├── mako          : Notification daemon config
    │   └── icons     : Notification icons
    ├── scripts       : Various scripts for functionality
    ├── wallpapers    : Wallpapers
    ├── waybar        : Statusbar config
    ├── wlogout       : Wlogout config
    │   └── icons     : Session icons
    ├── wofi          : Launcher config
    └── config.py     : Main config file for NEWM

Enable Blur Effect

To enable blur effect, You need to edit these files and adjust color opacity :

~/.config/newm/config.py
- Uncomment line 128, 137, 142 and 147 and comment the one below them, respectively.
~/.config/newm/foot/colors.ini
- set alpha value on line 6 : alpha=0.5
~/.config/newm/mako/config
- set alpha value in bg color on line 37 : background-color=#2E344066
~/.config/newm/waybar/style.css
- set alpha value in window bg-color on line 13 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);
~/.config/newm/wlogout/style.css
- set alpha value in window bg-color on line 14 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);
~/.config/newm/wofi/style.css
- set alpha value in window bg-color on line 12 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);

Keybindings

Keys	Action
`super`	Toggle Overview
`super + Return`	Open terminal
`super + shift + Return`	Open floating terminal
`super + alt + Return`	Open terminal with selected geometry
`super + F`	Open file manager
`super + E`	Open text editor
`super + W`	Open web browser
`super + D`	Run app launcher
`super + X`	Run powermenu
`super + N`	Open network manager
`super + P`	Run colorpicker
`super + C/Q`	Kill active window
`ctrl + alt + L`	Run lockscreen
`super + shift + C`	Reload newm config
`ctrl + alt + Delete`	Exit newm instantly
`super + Space`	Toggle fullscreen mode
`super + shift + Space`	Toggle floating mode
`super + S`	Swap b/w overlapping views
`super + Equal`	Increase Scale / Zoom in
`super + Minus`	Decrease Scale / Zoom out
`super + Left`	Change focus to the left view
`super + Right`	Change focus to the right view
`super + Up`	Change focus to the upper view
`super + Down`	Change focus to the lower view
`super + shift + Left/Right/Up/Down`	Move view to respective side
`super + ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down`	Resize view respectively