Delving into AwesomeWM, again…

First, some preface

I've used Awesome before, its great! While i never dived deep into the nitty-gritty of how it worked, i felt quite comfy with the basic config that comes out of the box.

Why "again"

I was looking for an alternate WM to offer instead of Qtile (because packaging python "the debian way" is not a can of worms i want to open right now.) as its not officially maintained in the repos, same goes for alacritty (why i also install Kitty, while on arch its a "choose which one you like more" here kitty is being used as an alternative).

What makes this time different?

ORG MODE!

Emacs and Org have truely made my config file management a dream, being able to split each part up into its own source code block and magically export them to the required file makes finding, and changing things when needed so. much. easier! Hell, org has taken over my life so much that i rewrote this very site in org (with simple.css for styling, looks pretty swick if i do say so myself.)!

What about your configs and such?

Here's where i'd insert that beautiful picture of TheRussianBadger with T-Pain's name next to him but the framing and his facial expression give off the "Spain without the S" vibes.

Apt Repos and ubuntu PPA's are pain. they are hurting my soul. i kind of have a semi sorta working Debian Apt repo but… yeah its a work in progress.

Anything else different for Debian?

hopefully no! eventually i want to package up Qtile and include it in my apt repo along with alacritty so there's more of a package parity between both versions of my install script, though thats a far pipe dream right now. let me get Apt and Ubuntu PPA's sorted in my head first k?

i've uploaded the Readme org file for the basic Awesome config to the cbsh-configs repo so you can have a look and such.

i should probably install it on my main machine again huh?

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