Jun 032010

As the title suggests, despite all of the wonderful ideas that I have, I would like to know what you as readers would like to know. What applications are you wanting to learn how to use? What window managers or system tools would you like to be able to customize? In short, what [...]

Dec 152009
Adventures with Awesome-3.4 Part III-Widgets

The time has come, we are going to pop the widget cherry on awesome.  Check out the above image, those are the widgets that I use by default.  From left to right we have a an inbox counter tied to my gmail inbox, cpu meter, RAM usage, HDD usage (specifically my root partition), wifi info, [...]

Dec 122009
Adventures with Awesome-3.4 Part II-The Looks

Well, it has been far too long, but now comes the time where we talk about making Awesome look as good as its name sounds :)

Last time we changed the background image and did some basic edits for functionality’s sake.  Now we are going to delve into some simple ways of getting Awesome to look [...]

Nov 192009

I have had to postpone posting Part 2 of my how to on how to customize Awesome due to some site changes.  Rather than using Blogger to run the wikis and how to’s, I will be using Desktop Evolution.  The only problem is that the site is currently in its infant stages at the moment. [...]

Nov 152009
Adventures with Awesome-3.4.1-Part1-The Basics

Part 1 of the basic guide to customizing the Awesome window manager. Here we cover setting up the default terminal, editor, background, and other things to get you started.