Awesome - Mechanist (lovelace) - Change the settings of touchpad and Mouse

ThinhNguyenHoang commented 2 years ago

Hi, After installing correctly with the instructions in the setup page and change the rc.lua to lovelace themes. I am unable to access the settings.

I tried to right-click the empty space on the desktop and click on the Gears Icon but nothing happen. It only lags (displace the windows) for a short moment and return to normal. No settings panel is opened.

And another problem is i can't access my files with a File Explorer. I can't find any instruction on setting up thunar and bind it to lovelace.

I'm sorry if I bothered you. Really great Rice. The look is aesthetic but I wish it could be a bit more functional (I mean some of the Icons are not clickable).

ThinhNguyenHoang commented 2 years ago

Sorry if I was ambiguous, the settings I desired to change was One Tap Touchpad Click, and Reverse Scrolling.

I tried to install xfce4-settings and try to change these options but the settings are not recorded

elenapan commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

The gears icon runs awesome.restart() on click, which is equivalent to pressing super+shift+r. This is why the windows lose their position. Of course, you can make this button run any command you like. Here is a patch for running the XFCE settings command instead of restarting Awesome:

diff --git a/config/awesome/elemental/app_drawer.lua b/config/awesome/elemental/ap
p_drawer.lua
index 6be3c80..21149ad 100644
--- a/config/awesome/elemental/app_drawer.lua
+++ b/config/awesome/elemental/app_drawer.lua
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ restart_awesome:buttons(gears.table.join(
    awful.button({ }, 1, awesome.restart)
))

+local xfce4settings = create_button("", x.color4, x.color12)
+xfce4settings:buttons(gears.table.join(
+    awful.button({ }, 1, function() awful.spawn.with_shell("xfce4-settings-manage
r") end)
+))
+
-- Create the widget
app_drawer = wibox({visible = false, ontop = true, type = "dock"})
awful.placement.maximize(app_drawer)
@@ -198,7 +203,7 @@ app_drawer:setup {
        create_stripe({browser, youtube, discord, telegram}, "#00000000"),
        create_stripe({mail, org, files, passwords}, x.color8.."20"),
        create_stripe({gimp, record, lutris, steam}, x.color8.."40"),
-        create_stripe({networks, night_mode, compositor, restart_awesome}, x.colo
r8.."60"),
+        create_stripe({networks, night_mode, compositor, xfce4settings}, x.color8
.."60"),
        layout = wibox.layout.flex.vertical
    },
    bg = x.background,
:

Window managers are not responsible for configuring the mouse. Usually these changes are made through system configuration files.

So I will forward you to the excellent Arch Wiki article on libinput. I believe the libinput options you are looking for are Option "Tapping" "on" and Option "NaturalScrolling" "true".
As for the file manager, I have set a keybind in keys.lua (by default super+F2) which runs the user.file_manager command.

You can change the file manager in: https://github.com/elenapan/dotfiles/blob/e952184146525f8d75ccfccb187938de1efafc54/config/awesome/rc.lua#L82

For Thunar, set file_manager = "thunar",.

ThinhNguyenHoang commented 2 years ago

My bad, I forgot to close the issue

I managed to configure these myself (kind of like a work-around though 😄 ) after days of digging through the wiki and threads on the forums. It's a little bit troublesome since I have no experience with lua and XFCE, but I'm glad I managed to make it work.

Either way, I'm really thankful you showed me the more correct way to do it. Maybe I will need these in the future ❤️.

Best regards.

elenapan / dotfiles

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