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 window manager …

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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 methods …

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In part four of my "ricing awesome WM" guide, we'll look at setting a screen resolution using xrandr. Display Settings The way in which you manage your screen resolutions when using a window manager differs slightly from what you're used to when using Xfce. In Xfce, you most likely used the "xfce4-settings Display" app …

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In part three of "ricing" the Awesome window manager, we'll look at adding a "run launcher" called "Rofi" and "hotkey daemon" called "sxhkd". We'll also create an "AutoStart" script, which will allow us to launch applications, scripts and system tray applets when Awesome starts up. Simple X Hotkey Daemon I normally …

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On of many things I love about Linux, is that fact that you can change almost everything about the OS. Unlike Mac or Windows where you're forced to use the graphical user interface which comes with the OS - Linux allows unparalleled flexibility and freedom when it comes to customization. Installing and learning how to …

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Like most "Linux tinkerers" who like to customize their OS, I've spent a bunch of time over the last few weeks looking on in awe at all the highly customized, yet minimal "Tiling window manager" environments submitted over at r/unixporn. I wanted to get in on the action. So, after some deliberation and a bit of reading …

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