dtos-dotfiles/.config/awesome/lain/wiki/Home.md

Welcome to the Lain wiki!

If you spot a typo or have a suggestion to improve these pages, please notify me opening an issue format. Thank you.

Dependencies

Package	Requested by	Reasons of choice
curl	imap, mpd, and weather widgets	1. faster and simpler to use than LuaSocket; 2. it's in the core of almost every distro; 3. can be called asynchronously
GLib >= 2.54	fs widget	Pure Awesome/Lua implementation.

The second dependency will be removed once all major distros update their Gio/Glib versions.

Installation

Arch Linux

AUR package

Other distributions

git clone https://github.com/lcpz/lain.git ~/.config/awesome/lain

Also available via LuaRocks.

Usage

First, include it into your rc.lua:

local lain = require("lain")

Then check out the submodules you want:

• Layouts
• Widgets
• Utilities