As a fellow Awesome WM user my "solution" to this is two Git repos - one to set up the system using Puppet, and one with user configuration such as rc.lua. I've

As a fellow Awesome WM user my "solution" to this is two Git repos - one to set up the system using Puppet, and one with user configuration such as rc.lua. I've got to basically the same list as OP plus * low power warnings from cbatticon and * very basic colour management <https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tilde/blob/6a890f649dd481028ba34ed9ddce75a3d44b5be3/.xprofile#L35-40> https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tilde/blob/6a890f649dd4810.... Building a proper DE around a decent tiling WM (or separating out the quality-of-life parts of KDE/GNOME) would be fantastic.