A minimalistic app drawer for Awesome Window Manager. Uses .desktop format.
Clone this git repo into your ~/.config/awesome folder:
cd ~/.config/awesome && git clone https://github.com/nwdamgaard/awesomewm-app-drawer.git
- Add
local app_drawer_widget = require("awesomewm-app-drawer.drawer")
to your rc.lua file. NOTE: this must be placed after thebeautiful.init
command. - Use
app_drawer_widget()
to create the widget. I have mine in my top bar.
- You can change the size of the icons by changing the
icon_size
variable in drawer.lua. Default is 32px. - You can change how many icons wide the widget will be before making a new row by changing
width
in drawer.lua. Default is 5 icons wide. - You can change what folder to look for .desktop files in by changing the
DESKTOP_DIR
variable in drawer.lua. Default is ~/Desktop.