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🎨 Look & Feel

This Labwc config embraces a classic, familiar desktop aesthetic, styled closely after traditional Openbox.

General Appearance

  • Decoration: Server-side decorations (titlebars) enabled.
  • Theme: Clearlooks-3.4 (Classic GTK look).
  • Corner Radius: 8px
  • Font: Sans, size 10.
  • Drop Shadows: Disabled for a clean, flat look.

Window Snapping

  • Top Maximize: Dragging a window to the top edge will maximize it.
  • Edge Snapping: Dragging to left/right edges snaps to 50%.
  • Resistance: 20px resistance at screen and window edges before snapping.

Window Switcher (Alt-Tab)

  • Style: Classic list format.
  • Preview: Enabled (shows window outlines).
  • Fields: Displays the application icon, desktop entry name, and window title.

Autostart

Applications are spawned automatically via ~/.config/labwc/autostart: - Wallpaper: swaybg sets a dark road wallpaper. - Waybar: Launches with config.jsonc and style.css. - Network: nm-applet - Notifications: swaync

Input Devices

  • Keyboard: Repeat rate 25, delay 600.
  • Touchpad: Tap-to-click enabled. Scroll factor 1.0.