Getting Started With Awesome Window Manager 

installed a tiling window maanager - sets window mode to floating. :D

I like how you say "read the documentation", with a mug in the background saying "RTFM"

dt: my password is super secure the password: "dt"

I'm a Linux newbie but thanks to you and your patreons, I'm feeling much more comfortable digging deeper into this cool new dimension. Keep up the great work Derek.

I consider AwesomeWM to be a hybrid.. meaning if you want only floating windows with bars and open/close buttons, then you can have that. You can also remove window bars and buttons and have it only act as a tiling wm. I think that AwesomeWM is basically best of both worlds, you can float and/or you can tile. I mean moreso than most other tiling window managers.

This is one of the only tutorials i watched to the end. And thats pretty rare for me. Really good job in explaining this, exactly what i needed. I am new to linux and installed manjaro today and am already trying to operate awesome only using hotkeys. Thanks for the great tutorial.

YES. I've been seeing some amazing layouts with Awesome, and have been tempted to switch over. Seeing this has helped.

I was about to install i3 again on my crappy laptop for performance (and then delete it a few days after because of frustration of how it handles notifications and such), but you convinced me this feels more awesome. I'm giving it a big try.

If I remember correctly the built in run prompt has tab completion.

Thank you man, I really enjoy how you teach, you put yourself on the student shoes and you are kind 🙏💓🙏

Had such content existed when I was starting out, it would've saved me days worth of frustration. This guy is doing public service really. Pay attention kids 😂

This is so incredibly helpful. Thanks, Distrotube!

So glad I found your channel... rusty and needing to upgrade my skills,,, your the perfect fit, thanks

Hey with a friend we just restart to talk about tiling wm and I found your channel. This vidéo come on the perfect time !!! Thanks a lot you take time to do it step by step and it's help a lot.

Thanks for sharing your configuration, this helped a lot!

Thank you good sir. My friend has been suggesting i use Awesome for awhile. I normally prefer cinnamon but after getting this running on arch i can safely say it feels alien but interesting and useful. I intend to keep using awesome. Main thing i like about awesome so far is how easy it is to switch workspaces. It makes placing windows in full screen mode extremely doable

Excellent video, keen to try this out on my new Fedora install! Thanks DT.

I just started playing around with tiling managers and i gotta say.. i like the heck out of it, particularly awesome just because it's so versatile. It's funny I actually installed it, found the floating mode and was like "Neat... ok lets just turn that off." lol

This is perfect timing. I switched to AwesomeWM just this week.

I love the cmatrix runing in the background.

awesome is truly a blessing for me compared to i3 and DWM, which I had no clue where to even start. This video really helped me to get started.

Good explanation DF, took me a while to keep up but lately i'm begining to follow. Thank you for your efforts!

But if your gonna run awesome having someone to hold your hand is helpful. So good job Derek.

Tiling windows for me is like DT relationship with Gnome. A no go

Awesome, thanks! (no pun intended) I'm a new user of dwm (only a couple of weeks since I installed it), and I love it. I heard about it from Luke Smith about a year ago. What really made me want to install was its official description, which contains the following: "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions." Sign me up :D

DT you are our Man. I love this channel. Do not hesitate Keep on moving. If we want to free ourselves from no sense Desktops then installing Window Manager (Awesome).

Thank you, Derek. One of the common complaints against Nautilus is that it no longer is tied to the "desktop" paradigm to display folders etc.

I'm gonna learn Lua to make some Neovim plugins and I also want to use Awsome. I think this video was made at the wright time for me!!!!

Just wachted the first 10min, but i wanted to say.. Man I just love the way you teach, especially that you're not just explaining once what a specific action does and then just saying 5 times do what we did there or press xy and type in xyz like many other's doing tutorials.. you're not just explaining, you're teaching us how to and what it does what while telling multiple times what it does if a specific step repeats, Which makes it much easier to learn and it also seems logical (example: Mention to remember -> Super +R opens the run promt)

For anyone who doesn't know (maybe this should have been in the video): **SUPER** is The Windows / Command key..

A much needed tutorial, thanks a lot dt

Awesome was the only WM I was able to install inside Docker container, so I could play around with it.

Could you show us how to remove those windows decorations and add this beautiful solid colors on awesome or hlwm or bspwm? Thank you very much. :)

Loool.) I wanted to ask tutorial on WM, but thought that other topics have bigger priority. XD So thank you. I've installer Awesome a long time ago, but haven't used it.

By hitting super+s, I noticed that maybe the dmenu task in this video was unnecessary, because super-p already offers something that functions like dmenu. However, covering how to bind dmenu with a key was helpful for the purposes of demonstration. In videos like these, I wish you'd always cover how to adjust the size of what gets displayed on the screen. The fonts are so small by default! The first thing I want to know is how to make things bigger. I'll figure that out, though.

Come from the tilling Window manager video, thanks for doing this guide for noobs ;D

This is what i was looking for. Thanks DT!

thanks for the amazing and simple tutoriale very begginer friendly, thanks!

Maybe it's time I tried a different WM other than i3. Heard so many good things about awesome. Thanks for the tutorial. Hack on!

broooooo! this is exactly what I needed to see to understand why its not autocompleting my launcher! this video is very helpful!!!! ty!!

Nitrogen, Polybar and Awesome or Openbox and go... Hard to go wrong with the above and it's good training considering tiling managers especially from an administrative/maintenance view point. Good vid.

20:10 line 332, awful.key( opens a parentheses and when you delete the next lines, you did not close the parentheses with ). The error also says missing parentheses ')'.

The strangest, "goodest" thing has just happened. I was watching an older video of yours, where you go over your workflow with awesome and wondering about how I could get started with it. I then opened a new RU-vid tab and bam! There's this video, posted about 25min ago. :) Watching it now! Thanks!

I wish I watched something like this when I was using Awesome. I prefer i3 to Awesome but it was a great introduction to dynamic tiling WM's.

Thanks for this video! I'm now considering switching from Regolith (i3) to awesome (mostly because of Lua) :)

It is quite awesome. It's what I use now. It was the first WM I installed but I got put off by the config and moved to i3 back when I was a noob.

outstanding video, thank you for all the great indepth information

thank you for this video,i thought awesome would be hard to customize and stuff but now it seems not so hard

i love your videos man i don't feel ashamed you have made me a better Linux Mint/ LMDE user i often show my wife the things you have shown us and she is a better linux mint user now also she loves Mint and won't let me change it. because her Mint is hers (as she puts it to me) so thanx again.

thanks man , you are AWESOME !!!

I appreciate your passion. I’m quite familiar with Linux and it is always wonderful to find like minded pros. Excellent work.

This one of my favorite DT videos. No.1 top five reasons to Arch Linux. No.2 ArcoLinux Extended has all all the window manager. This one is No.3

Tip: if you have dmenu installed, Awesome has the built in keybinding “Super+P” to open a dmenu application launch prompt. Don’t know when that keybinding was added, but it is currently a default binding.

My man I will have to put some money in the hat. This is Awesome, can you get in to this a little deeper. I may be a part 2. I love working with the terminal.

nice tutorial my first wm for me was dwm and i did not look back since then

Derek, you are Awesome!

Awesome ! Thanks for sharing !

i'd love a video on how to write your config from scratch. i feel like instead of having everything and deleting stuff you don't want it should be easier. with a clean file. im just not sure about spacing and what things are required from the system install be nice to have a video because you do awesome on your config organization

So does awesome use less resources than the standard ubuntu desktop?

I have been an arch user for more than a year, configuring my i3 WM to my liking, when a day I finally decided to try another WM. I want to understand why so much people on reddit r/unixporn said to have migrated from i3 to Awesome. I am also fed up of the floating windows that opens in the back of a fullscreen window in i3. You gave me the two essential informations (and the two things I have really done with my i3 config) that I was searching for : how to change default shortcuts, and launch applications at start. Let's hope I will be able to start my redshift-gtk app only after I've got some Internet connection. But yeah, I agree with you, only the documentation can really help :)

great tutorial. thanks I am gona try this

Nice man. I’ve really been enjoying your videos. I installed jwm last night to mess with. But now I’m wondering if I should use awesome. I have a question tho. There isn’t going to be a battery indicator (I use a laptop) a network connection icon or like a way to adjust audio in the tool bar by default right?

nice "Aweomsome WM Config", tyvm

Really good tutorial. You showed so many things about Awesome. I was wondering how it worked. @9:00 - Your image is great and clear in the play-in-play window. The main screen. .. kinda fuzzy dude.

AwsomeWM is my favorite. Run it on all my machines.

Hi, why did you use floating mode when configured awesomeWM? I have never seen people use tiling mode besides the terminal.

@dwt1 Your dotfiles for Awesome work perfectly. One thing I can't find out. Where do I change settings in that beautiful top bar? I'm getting tired of switching directories, searching for the right file in which I can change things.

I've used Larswm. I'm just not a big fan of tiling managers, though I can see how useful they are.

Thanks DT!!

Can we have a more in-depth tutorial on how to configure the panel itself? Like the color, workspace tags, start button, things like that?

Installed Arco Xtended, on one of my main machines today... playing around with Awesome and am already starting to have an urge to mess around with the rc.lua file, lol.

Great, can you please do a tutorial on how to get rid of title bars? I am using mint cinamon 20.

You can also use super + p(without dmenu) to show better menu

since that recent video ive lived in QTILE and i love it.

Is there a way to get intellisense or error checking against the actual awesome libraries, in editors like VS Code?

Derek, you are a godsend my friend. i consider myself a noob but ive been using Pop! OS for about 2 years, but that doesnt count because its too easy. your vids are great, you are a very good teacher. maybe a tutorial on how to install a tar.xz for us noobs?

Great video. After trying on my VM, I'm doing this on my computer. If you're on Arch / Manjaro, you should use picom instead of compton.

Fantastic. You installed a tiling window manager, screwed around with the lua script and managed to not tile any window while doing it.

Thank you so much!

Good day, DT, and thank you for your content. Is there a list of any kind where can I find all the necessary components like a compositor, login manager, this password service I can't remember the name of?

Thank you for this vid. I am new to tiling WM's and I now prefer Awesome over i3; which I only recently started using. I wanted to post for anyone else using Debian 10 (Buster) as I was unable to follow exactly along with your edits. So far, I had to edit the existing rc.lua file in /etc/xdg/awesome/ folder as creating my own as you did broke awesome (I had to login to i3 session to delete the new rc.lua file). Also, I cetainly agree with you about the lack-luster features of the default "run" widget. However, editing the rc.lua file to run dmenu (or rofi) as you did in that respect also ended in a crash of Awesome. After a brief search I discovered the issue lies in the fact that the default Awesome run is a widget whereas dmenu is an application. The article brought to light the use of Mod4+p which brings up a default run widget that basically does the same thing as dmenu by default. Here's a link to the article. Keep the distro tuts coming Bro!! I watch your vids a lot. Thanks again... www.reddit.com/r/awesomewm/comments/5spgph/why_awesome_use_promptbox_instead_of_dmenu/

Great work Thank you

Do you have to put & after commands in autostart in Lua files? You have to do that in Openbox, and in the Terminal as well. Also, according to r/unixporn, Awesome can create some really cool floating environments as well.

What you can do to figure out your startup applications is to open "Startup Applications" in your DE, then click edit on each entry. That's how I found out what commands launch what programs without tearing my hair out.

You don't have to type full names in Awesome's default run prompt, just TAB to autocomplete

Tried Awesome now after using i3 some time where Super+Shift+Q was closing active tiles. 😂 First thing I had to change in Awesome, muscle-memory and so...

I got stuck on which version of Compton or picom to use for my compositor on Manjaro. Any suggestions or pros|cons?

hi! I was wondering if there are some function to swap monitor between them, all the content of course. For instance, If I have in monitor 1 a browser and in monitor 2 tree terminals, I want to be able to swap the browser to the monitor 2 and all the terminals to the 1. Thank you so much!!!

for some reason nautilus theme is not the same in awesome then on pop, how can i change nautilus theme to dark when i am on awesome? (transparency as default theme would also be nice)

How do you guys "auto load" nvidia and mouse settings? such as refresh rate, primary monitor etc. and for mouse settings i removed mouse acceleration but the sensitivity is a bit too low and i can't figure out how to change it.

I used to use Openbox back in the days when I first started using Linux in the 2.6 days. As I look at my fleet of aging computers and laptops, I consider an extremely light weight option to bring these systems as far into the modern era as I can. I then look at my daily drivers and gaming computers, and wonder how I can optimize the frick out of them to get as much OS out of my way to free my resources up for GAME. This got me back into looking at window managers, rather than complete DEs, for these use cases. I don't think I'm ready to go all-in on a tiling manager, so my attention went to Awesome.

Great video, very helpful to me because I just begin to use this great software. I just want to how to move to a different tag locate on a different screen with one shortcut keystroke. I wonder how can I share the tags between screen monitors so, I can move the specified tag directly. Thanks a lot.

loved it

very helpful tutorials

Just installed awesome on Alpine Linux. I think I'm all in on tilers!

Why did the scroll direction change when I change to Awesome? How do I change that?

Nice video well done.

I installed Awesome on Arch using the command sudo pacman -S awesome and booted into Awesome, but I am lacking the menu that you showed with super+w and many of the commands don't work. I cannot open a terminal using the keybindings so I have to open a prompt to type in konsole (I use KDE otherwise) in order to do stuff in it. What could be the reason?

I am getting the blank screen after loging in to the awesome what could be the reason?

Is there a desktop environment that is like a window manager that comes with the tools to do things like join wifi or pair Bluetooth devices and stuff like that? I feel like it would take me months to get into a window manager, because of all the time required to find the tools and things necessary to be able to do things like join wifi and pair Bluetooth.