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Discussion on: August 13th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

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Heiker

I gathered enough knowledge about lua to finally try out Awesome (the window manager). I made a theme that looks really nice.

desktop screenshot. Simple desktop showing a terminal window, a file manager and a calendar widget

In the process I found out lxsession can be used to fill some of the features that window manager don't handle. It's part of the LXDE desktop environment but I think is a standalone module. The main use case for me is the autostart features, to enable some background services. It has a policykit daemon, and also a "logout menu", and some others stuff. It's cool.

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Nick Taylor

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