Awesome Optimizations
| AwesomeWM tweaks | Description |
|---|---|
| beautiful.border_width = 1 | 1-pixel borders only |
| beautiful.border_normal = "#000000" | Black borders |
| beautiful.border_focus = "#000000" | No color change on focus |
| beautiful.useless_gap = 0 | Zero gaps everywhere |
| beautiful.titlebar_enabled = false | No title bars – huge FPS win |
| awful.rules: floating + no borders | Floating windows get 1px border only |
| No shadow widgets | client:disconnect_signal("shadow") or just don’t use them |
| No client animations | Disable all wibox/titlebar animations |
| Solid black wallpaper | awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(function(s) gears.wallpaper.solid("#000000") end) |
| Wibar height = 18 | Tiny top bar |
| Font: "fixed 8" or "Terminus 8" | Bitmap font – zero GPU cost |
| Picom: shadow = false | No shadows |
| Picom: fading = false | No fades |
| Picom: blur = none | Blur off |
| Picom: corner-radius = 0 | Sharp corners |
| Picom flags: --vsync --glx-no-stencil | Minimal tear-free compositing |
| AQ_NO_MODIFIERS=1 | Fixes stuttering and DDB errors |
| RADV_PERFTEST=nggc,rt,sco | Enables Next Generation Geometry Culling, Rasterizer Toggle and Shader Cache Optimizations |