Well – Awesome is still awesome – in the upcoming version 3 (installed from git) – it’s really stable and full of nice features.
Today I would like to post some screen shots and my new .awesomerc file together with .conkyrc. I suppose that there are more and more people interested in this Window Manager – and what I would like to do is to help. You can, of course, find many more configuration files on the Net (my favourites are those of Gigamo, phraok and last but not least – calmar – who also contributes to Awesome WM developing. Just search for those nicknames on Google – and you will probably get nice configuration files).
Anyway, here come my today’s screen shots:
I hope you like it! Notice conky piped to bottom panel… 
And here come configuration files of conky and AwesomeWM:
Perhaps it will be of a little help for everybody willing to try – according to me – the best Window Manager ever! 
Enjoy!
tami
PS. Wallpaper from the wallpapers pack by Miheer from deviantArt – here’s the link:
http://miheer.deviantart.com/art/black-wallpaper-pack-75708923
Related posts:
Customizing Awesome – very good tutorial on using conky in Awesome’s panel – and much more!
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May 11, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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May 19, 2008 at 9:56 pm
pepemarcel
Hello tami,
I was looking for some feedbacks about awesome and i found you website. Now i’m using it and i enjoy this window manager.
But there is something more interesting that you use: great console colors! I dream about finding good colors for my urxvt, and it’s not easy. Yours are very pretty, so i wonder if you could send me or paste your color codes somewhere?
Thank you a lot,
marcel.
May 19, 2008 at 10:17 pm
tamihania
Hi marcel,
I’m glad you like the colors.
I would share them with pleasure (although I have to admit that I change them from time to time – so, I’m actually not sure which one are on the screen shots…).
Anyway – right now I’m using colors “grabbed” from husio’s website (link: ftp://husio.homelinux.com/dotfiles/Xdefaults):
!! husio colors
*background: #121212
*foreground: #F6F6F6
*cursorColor: #ACEA5C
!black text
*color0: #0d0d0d
*color8: #0d0d0d
!red text
*color1: #B73F23
*color9: #C74B2E
!green text
*color2: #82B94A
*color10: #82B94A
!yellow text
*color3: #C5CF43
*color11: #C5CF43
!blue text
*color4: #6C89B1
*color12: #6C89B1
!magenta text
*color5: #AA6F90
*color13: #AA6F90
!cyan text
*color6: #A673BE
*color14: #A673BE
!white
*color7: #EDEDED
*color15: #EDEDED
with the special background for urxvt:
URxvt*background: rgba:1111/1111/1111/cccc
But I’m also the fan of lyrea colors:
*background: #262626
URxvt*background: rgba:1111/1111/1111/cccc
*foreground: #8f8f8f
*cursorColor: gray
*color0: #222222
*color1: #822626
*color2: #559627
*color3: #C1A432
*color4: #4F8EAF
*color5: #8B498B
*color6: #489292
*color7: #BBBBBB
*color8: #707070
*color9: #C55F5F
*color10: #B0E25D
*color11: #E5D993
*color12: #91B9D8
*color13: #C376C3
*color14: #ACD7D7
*color15: #E0E0E0
Try them both and decide what you prefer
Besides – I also found out that the vim colors are very important. My favorite color schemes are:
“colorscheme inkpot
“colorscheme pacific
“colorscheme darkrobot
“colorscheme transparent
“colorscheme 256-junglea
“colorscheme two2tangoa
and the one I use right now:
colorscheme darkspectrum. (They’re also nice looking in gvim and vimdiff).
I hope it will help you.
Thank you very much for the nice comment,
tami
May 22, 2008 at 6:41 pm
pepemarcel
Hello tami,
Thank you for your Xdefault file. Colors are close, so i just have to fix one or 2 and it will be ok. I hope you a good continuation in your linux exploration
marcel
May 22, 2008 at 6:52 pm
tamihania
Hi marcel,
I’m glad those colors are close. Anyway – today I found another nice scheme by codemac:
! codemac colors
*color0: #000000
*color8: #555555
*color1: #EE3C3C
*color9: #FF5555
*color2: #00BB00
*color10: #55FF55
*color3: #FFD955
*color11: #FFFF55
*color4: #5555FF
*color12: #008ED1
*color5: #992299
*color13: #FF55FF
*color6: #0×9999
*color14: #00FFFF
*color7: #BBBBBB
*color15: #FFFFFF
It looks a bit more “crispy” on dark/transparent background.
Perhaps you could also try to put this into your .bashrc (although I’m not sure if it will work with urxvt – but I have it):
# linux console colours – ala Phrakture
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
echo -en “\e]P0222222″ #black
echo -en “\e]P8222222″ #darkgrey
echo -en “\e]P1803232″ #darkred
echo -en “\e]P9982b2b” #red
echo -en “\e]P25b762f” #darkgreen
echo -en “\e]PA89b83f” #green
echo -en “\e]P3aa9943″ #brown
echo -en “\e]PBefef60″ #yellow
echo -en “\e]P4324c80″ #darkblue
echo -en “\e]PC2b4f98″ #blue
echo -en “\e]P5706c9a” #darkmagenta
echo -en “\e]PD826ab1″ #magenta
echo -en “\e]P692b19e” #darkcyan
echo -en “\e]PEa1cdcd” #cyan
echo -en “\e]P7ffffff” #lightgrey
echo -en “\e]PFdedede” #white
clear #for background artifacting
fi
I wish you also a lot of fun with Linux.
tami
May 22, 2008 at 7:15 pm
pepemarcel
Than you for new colors
I found theses when i was looking for some precise colors: http://mkaz.com/ref/xterm_colors.html
).
To be honest, your crispy colors are eye candy, i like (except pink maybe
About linux, i started to use Gentoo 2 weeks ago, and i have a lot of fun to fix problems (i enjoy that).
I have two question about conky: can i include conky in my main taskbar on the top of the screen? If i’m right, conky exports variables, that i just have to turn in graph with awesome to use it, right?
marcel
May 22, 2008 at 9:48 pm
tamihania
You are welcome. BTW – thank you for the link.
I’m running Arch and sidux, he he. Sidux for ca 1,5 year on one computer and Arch for half year on two machines. I find both distros simply splendid!
As to your questions:
1. You can, of course include conky in the top bar. Just change appropriately .awesomerc and – beware how many entries from the conky you will put there
For more elaborate instructions check this link:
http://www.jabberoo.net/index.php/2008/03/31/customizing-awesome/
2. I’m sorry but I do not understand the question. But – yes conky in a way “exports” the information to awesome. You just have to put the script into your .xinitrc (if this is how you start X). I have there:
(sleep 2 ; $HOME/bin/awesome-conky.sh ; sleep 1m) &
And awesome-conky.sh looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
conky | awesome-client
I hope it will help.
Enjoy!
tami