awesome window manager configuration

awesome window manager configuration

[Joshua Branson]

Hello!

I recently started using the awesome window manager, and I'm curious if
I can help edit the manual a bit.  The current manual does not mention
that to configure the awesome window manager, one must copy the
configuration from
/gnu/store/xmmqxby6bm...-awesome-4.2/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
to "~/.config/awesome/".

My question is for now, can I add that information to the manual?

My second question is what is the long term plan for integrating window
managers with guixSD?  Should be turn all window manager packages into
services?  ie:

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(service
  (cons
    (service awesome-service-type
      (awesome-config
        (config-file "/etc/rc.lua")))
    %base-services))
#+END_SRC

Or users could try to use a service to configure awesome...

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(service
  (cons
    (service awesome-service-type
      (awesome-config
        (bind-keys
           '(('eject . "eject")
             ('volume-raise . "command to raise volume")
             ('volume-lower . "command to lower volume")
             ))
         (default-layouts
            '("awful.layout.suit.max"
              "awful.layout.suit.tile.left"
              "awful.layout.suit.tile.top"))))
    %base-services))
#+END_SRC


What do you all think?

--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: awesome window manager configuration

[Carlo Zancanaro]

Hi Joshua!

On Fri, Jan 04 2019, Joshua Branson wrote:
> I recently started using the awesome window manager, and I'm 
> curious if I can help edit the manual a bit.  The current manual 
> does not mention that to configure the awesome window manager, 
> one must copy the configuration from 
> /gnu/store/xmmqxby6bm...-awesome-4.2/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua to 
> "~/.config/awesome/".
>
> My question is for now, can I add that information to the 
> manual?

It would be great if you could add that to the manual! The usual 
advice for awesome is to copy it from /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua, so 
it's worth documenting that it's different on Guix. It might be 
worth saying to copy it from the relevant profile, rather than the 
specific store directory. The profile would usually be either 
~/.guix-profile/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua (if it's installed as a 
user package), or 
/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua (if it's 
installed as a system package).

> My second question is what is the long term plan for integrating 
> window managers with guixSD?  Should be turn all window manager 
> packages into services? ...

I don't think we need to do this. As long as they work (and are 
picked up by DMs) when installed as a package, I think that's 
sufficient. I actually don't even have Awesome installed as a 
system package - I install it as a user package and configure my 
DE (xfce, which is installed as a system package) to start Awesome 
from my user profile.

Carlo