NoiseTorch is a cool little Linux audio app which aims to provide noise suppression for your audio inputs. Whether it be a dog barking outside, someone turning on a hairdryer, the next door neighbour mowing his lawn or a freight train outside your kitchen window, NoiseTorch may be able to filter out those unwanted …

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If like me, you've collected hundreds of browser bookmarks for each website under the sun over the years, you may find it a bit slow to search through all those bookmarks within your web browser to find what you're looking for. The Brave browser does have a built-in bookmarks search, but what if I told you that there …

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💡 This guide is outdated. There exists an AUR package called emacs-nativecomp which you can install to achieve the same result. Emacs is probably my favourite "text editor" to use on Linux, as it is so extensible. However, the one thing that puts many people off using it (ignoring its complexity), is the fact …

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Adding a Compositor Those of you interested in ricing your window manager will no doubt have seen all the fancy looking desktop on r/unixporn which have a transparent/blurring effect behind app windows. This can really add a modern look to your desktop. This can be achieved by using a compositing manager. The Awesome …

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Wallpapers When customising your desktop, the thing that stands out the most is your wallpaper. It takes up the most pixels on your screen after all, and when it comes to setting a wallpaper on Linux on a normal desktop environment, you have more than a few options. When using a window manager, however, I find these …

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In part three of the "Awesome Window Manager Guide", we covered, how to add a "run launcher" for searching and loading apps, adding a "hotkey daemon" for launching your favourite apps and taking screenshots, how to create an "autostart script" which automatically launches apps …

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kitty Terminal Emulator One of my favourite terminal emulators on Linux has always been "Alacritty". It's lightweight and fast. Recently however, I've found myself using the "kitty" terminal a lot more. Here is a run-down of some features that I like about it. GPU Rendering The kitty terminal feels …

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In part two of the "Awesome Window Manager Guide", we looked at: Editing the default Awesome configuration file, setting the default terminal emulator and text editor, installing a third-party theme named awesome-copycats/powerarrow-dark performing tweaks to the theme code. Continuing in part three, we'll …

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