NEWM

The ultimate NEWM configuration (A Desktop Environment Like Experience)

Overview

newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. The idea is, instead of placing windows inside the small viewport (that is, the monitor) to arrange them along an arbitrarily large two-dimensional wall (generally without windows overlapping) and focus the compositors job on moving around along this wall efficiently and providing ways to the user to rearrange the wall such that he finds the overall layout intuitive.

• Operating System : Archcraft
• Window Manager : Newm
• Status Bar : Waybar
• Launcher : Wofi
• Session Manager : Wlogout
• Notifications : Mako
• Terminal : Foot
• File Manager : Thunar
• Text Editor : Geany
• Web Browser : Firefox

Installation

• Get the files from : Ko-fi ☕ ^{Why Paid}
• Extract The file newm.tar.gz with : tar -xzvf newm.tar.gz
• If you are using Archcraft (Required: 2023 or later) as your OS, You can just install the provided package with : sudo pacman -U archcraft-newm-2.0-0-any.pkg.tar.zst
• If you want to install this setup on Arch Linux or on any other distro, follow the points below :
  • Install the following programs on your computer: newm, wtype alacritty wlroots wl-clipboard waybar wofi foot mako grim slurp wf-recorder light yad wlogout thunar geany mpv mpd mpc viewnior imagemagick xfce-polkit xorg-xwayland xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
  • After installing programs above, Create newm directory in ~/.config : mkdir -p ~/.config/newm
  • Copy Everything from dotfiles/config to ~/.config/newm : cp -r ./dotfiles/config/* ~/.config/newm/
  • To launch Newm properly on your system, install the additional files provided in shared directory :

  sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/open-wl /usr/local/bin/open-wl
  sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/run_newm /usr/local/bin/run_newm
  sudo install -Dm 755 dotfiles/shared/00-lock.sh /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/00-lock.sh
  

  • Logout and login to your amazingly configured Newm.

Appearance

Install the following theme, icon pack, cursors and fonts for overall appearance.

• GTK Theme : Nordic gtk theme
• Icon Theme : Qogir icon theme
• Cursor Theme : Qogir cursor theme
• Fonts : JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, Iosevka Nerd Font, Icomoon Feather, Archcraft

Config Structure

~/.config
└── newm              : Newm config directory
    ├── foot          : Terminal config
    ├── mako          : Notification daemon config
    │   └── icons     : Notification icons
    ├── scripts       : Various scripts for functionality
    ├── wallpapers    : Wallpapers
    ├── waybar        : Statusbar config
    ├── wlogout       : Wlogout config
    │   └── icons     : Session icons
    ├── wofi          : Launcher config
    └── config.py     : Main config file for NEWM

Enable Blur Effect

To enable blur effect, You need to edit these files and adjust color opacity :

• ~/.config/newm/config.py
  • Uncomment line 128, 137, 142 and 147 and comment the one below them, respectively.
• ~/.config/newm/foot/colors.ini
  • set alpha value on line 6 : alpha=0.5
• ~/.config/newm/mako/config
  • set alpha value in bg color on line 37 : background-color=#2E344066
• ~/.config/newm/waybar/style.css
  • set alpha value in window bg-color on line 13 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);
• ~/.config/newm/wlogout/style.css
  • set alpha value in window bg-color on line 14 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);
• ~/.config/newm/wofi/style.css
  • set alpha value in window bg-color on line 12 : background-color: rgba(46, 52, 64, 0.5);

Keybindings

Touchpad Gestures

Move super + move-1	Resize super + swipe-2	Scroll swipe-3	Scale swipe-4

Tour : Videos

Here's the Complete Youtube Playlist demonstrating features.

Random wallpapers	Rounded corners	Blur effect	Smooth animations	Lockscreen

Overview	Moving	Resizing	Scrolling	Scaling

Screenshots

Solid

Desktop	Tiles	Wofi

Lockscreen	Overview	Wlogout

Blur

Desktop	Tiles	Wofi

Lockscreen	Overview	Wlogout

FYI

• May or may not work on Nvidia, See wayland requirements.
• Thank you for your support.

See Also

archcraft-sway	archcraft-wayfire	archcraft-river	archcraft-hyprland