How to Make a Custom Linux Desktop | My AwesomeWM Theme

This is the start of New Video Series. Making Custom Desktops and installing them from stock settings.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:04 GitHub
01:35 Dependency Install
02:57 First Login
03:41 Cheatsheet
04:07 Rofi Theme
05:03 Icon and Cursor Themes -lxappearance
06:32 Theme Uniformity between QT and GTK
07:18 Changing Default Apps
08:30 Set Startup Apps
09:08 Hotkeys
09:27 Change Workspace Icons
10:50 Wallpaper Setup and Change
14:44 Final Thoughts and Future Custom Desktops .

[ChrisTitusTech]

What is your favorite Desktop Theme?
P.S. Had to Reupload because prior video was demonetized. "Manual Review" failed and they deemed this video too dangerous lol.

[Daniel-xdfp]

I would love to see this become a series where you recreate themes that people post online like you were saying!

[musicalcoder]

I'd love to see this as a regular thing!

[angellightbringer]

I don't comment often, and also watch mostly off the TV from another specific account, but this I would like to see every month or so, explaining how to configure different environments, or AwesomeWM to different things.
Thanks for the videos, they really are awesome, pun intended 😄

[auntiecarol]

Nothing here suits my work-flow or aesthetics, BUT **Good Lord**! A lot of effort that has been put into making this "just so", and that I can most certainly appreciate!

[tomknapton]

Please do make this a monthly thing! It's really fun and a great way to learn!

[night_hnter]

This is actually helpful even for people with their themes set up. Thanks.

[josephchillemi]

Absolutely make this a monthly walkthrough series.

[tegendraads]

Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing this become a recurring topic. It's one of the reasons I changed to Linux... making it look how I want. And I guess there are even topics to go a little bit deeper into Linux customization. Not sure what theme I'm using btw. It's been a while since I changed

[caspera]

It's like building your own car. You can choose the tires that suit you best, pick the fastest engine and color it the way you want.

[LittleFearTV]

Like for mentioning vim and vscodium 👍

[RiPStF]

Coming from the car communities where "rice" is generally laughed at & frowned upon (at least in my groups), i find it interesting how in the linux community rice is in fact a welcomed & encouraged thing.

[DonaldWyman]

So the theming and all that is cool... I do not like the key bindings in this setup though. I had just gotten used to the defaults in awesome and this changes all of it.

[individous]

wow, your stuff is really fucking pristine! love it!

[womaninthespectrum]

Could you please show us more personalisations of this desktop model? I would like for example to make the wibox vertical and a bit bigger. Would be possible fo you to explain how to do it? Also I would like to add more icons to the top.
Besides that, could you go through the widget code with us? Most of my widgets aren't working and I don't know why. For example brightness and battery, both don't appear.

Thank you do much for making this config available. I am new at WM and it is helping me a lot to learn to get it the way I like.
Best regards

[meSpideYX]

Please make more like these awesomewm videos

[engshahed]

Would you please share us what do you mean by this from 15:10? Is this Hyperland or AwesomeWM theme? I’m looking for same theme for AwesomeWM 🙏

[AONIX-AH]

Hey Chris, I really appreciate the work you've done here. In the off chance you see this. Could you explain to me how to make the top bar larger? Upon adjusting my resolution to 3440x1440 the tool bar is so tiny I can' barely see it.

[BobOssler]

Awesome video Chris! (Pun intended) I have a question about scaling though. I've been using Pop! OS for about a year and I love the distro. I really like the Pop Shell extension that provides window tiling, but I want to fully try out AwesomeWM and see if a full tiling WM is better for my usage. I have AwesomeWM fully installed, themed, and running. However, my monitor is a 65" Sony TV and everything is WAY TOO small. With the Pop Shell, there is a setting under displays that allows me to scale (200% works great), and to turn on HiDPI. I've done some preliminary Internet searches, but really haven't found anything that talks about scaling AwesomeWM for use with large-screen TVs. Is there a setting in the LUA confoguration files or lxappearance that I am missing?

[gradyanderson]

Love it. Can we have an animated background like kde desktop environment? Would love to have the Matrix animated background like you have but as the wallpaper. Been trying to figure out how to do it without going the KDE desktop environment route again.