AwesomeWM Setup

Mostly from Redhound with some personal modifications.

Installation

1) Install the dependencies

• AwesomeWM
• Rofi
• Compton
• i3lock
• xclip
• maim (for screenshot)
• lxappearance
• playerctl and libplayerctl-dev (for global media control)

2) Clone the configuration

Run the following commands in the terminal. This also creates a backup for any pre-existing configuration.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huytd/awesome-wm-config
cp ~/.config/awesome ~/.config/awesome_backup
mv awesome-wm-config ~/.config/awesome

3) Set the themes

Start lxappearance to active the icon theme and GTK theme Note: for cursor theme, edit ~/.icons/default/index.theme and ~/.config/gtk3-0/settings.ini, for the change to also show up in applications run as root, copy the 2 files over to their respective place in /root.

4) Same theme for Qt/KDE applications and GTK applications, and fix missing indicators

First install qt5-style-plugins (or qt5-style-gtk2) and add this to the bottom of your /etc/environment

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

Wallpapers and Lock Image

Put wallpapers in $HOME/Pictures/Wallpapers, they will be used as wallpapers and lock screen background.

All only PNG files are used for lock screen.