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awesome-awesome-wm

A curated list of awesome tools/scripts/configs for Awesome Window Manager.
https://github.com/atsepkov/awesome-awesome-wm

  • Main repository - Latest development build.
  • Wiki - While not terse, a very useful resource.
  • Ubuntu/Mint - Use this PPA instead of official which tends to be very old.
  • Valid Key Names - Useful for figuring out things like `PgUp` is actually called `Prior` so you can map your shortcuts.
  • Dynamic Tagging - Those numbered tags in upper-left corner can now be renamed on the fly.
  • Menu Replacement - Unlike default menu that looks very basic compared to other window managers, this menu replaces the original with a more `Start`-like menu with icons.
  • Awesome Copycats - A collection of well-polished themes with distinct look and feel.
  • Theme with fancy features - A beautiful theme with screenshots.
  • Another polished theme - A theme showing that you don't have to settle for crappy ASCII art visuals.
  • awesome-ban - A theme inspired by Copycats themes
  • awesome-pro - Pro theme updated to support Awesome 4.0
  • Minimalist theme - Minimalist theme with high level of customization.
  • compton - High-performance compositor for those who like transparent windows.
  • radical - Fancy generator for custom menus
  • Awesome Zen - Collection of widgets with a consistent interface that hides when they're not relevant to declutter your desktop. Also includes utilities for managing windows more effectively.
  • Awesome WM Widgets - Good options for battery, music, CPU/RAM, and Volume widgets
  • Lain - Another set of polished Widgets for Awesome
  • Vicious - Contains modules that gather data about your system
  • Volume Icon - Stand-alone volume icon for lightweight WMs that fits well with nm-applet (C).
  • Network - A wireless + wired network widget that replaces nm-applet (Lua).
  • Battery - Stand-alone battery widget (C).
  • Weather - Widget that retrieves localized weather information from Yahoo.
  • Basic Calendar - Simple, but pretty calendar.
  • Calendar w/ TODO - (orglendar) A calendar + to-do list for awesome that reads entries from a .org file (I have a cronjob dumping my Google Calendar to that file) (Lua).
  • Pomodoro Timer - Hides clutter from the screen for 25 mins, replacing it with a progress bar (Lua).
  • awesome-scratch - A stashing area for window to declutter the workspace and easily recall programs, doesn't seem to be actively maintained
  • screenful - An extension that leverages udev to detect monitor connection/disconnection
  • autorandr - Automatically select xrandr display configuration based on connected devices
  • tmux integration to manage terminal sessions
  • treesome - no longer maintained, a utility for splitting workspace in a manner similar to TMUX