Arch Linux: Open files directly from Chromium in i3 or Awesome
These instructions are for i3 without using a desktop environment like gnome or KDE. My problem was that I would download a file in Chromium, and when I tried to open it, it would open the file in firefox before being opened in the appropriate application. Here's the solution ...
Awesome WM widget tooltip example
I thought I'd post a simple example of how to set up a custom tooltip for a widget in Awesome.
This example will add an icon to a wibox, and when the user hovers over it, that machine's internal and external IP addresses will be shown. To do ...
Awesome WM widgets configuration
I've been using Awesome WM for about six months, and I love it. The hard part was configuring everything--especially the widgets. Before using Awesome, I'd never seen nor heard of lua--the scripting language that awesome uses for its configuration files--but I am a programmer by trade, so it ...