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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