Key(, 'XF86AudioMute', lazy.spawn('amixer -q set Master toggle')), You can add shortcuts to easily control the sound volume and state by adding a user to the audio group and using the alsamixer command-line interface, which can be installed through the alsa-utils package. You can find out which modX corresponds to which key with the command Xmodmap. Here is an example of the shortcut Alt+Shift+q to quit the window manager. You can configure your shortcuts with the Key class. In Qtile, the workspaces (or views) are called Groups. If the command gives no output, your script is correct. $ python -m py_compile ~/.config/qtile/config.py The configuration is fully done in Python: for a very quick introduction to the language you can read this tutorial.īefore restarting Qtile you can test your configuration file for syntax errors using the command: Several more complete configuration file examples can be found in the qtile-examples repository.

Where qtile_dir is the name of the package you installed.Īlternatively, the most recent default configuration file can be downloaded from the git repository at libqtile/resources/default_config.py. $ cp /usr/share/doc/ qtile_dir/default_config.py ~/.config/qtile/config.py In order to start customizing Qtile, copy it to ~/.config/qtile/config.py: The default configuration includes the shortcut Super+Enter to open a new terminal (selected from a hardcoded list), and Super+Ctrl+q to quit Qtile. For more complete information, look at the official documentation.Īs described in Configuration Lookup, Qtile provides a default configuration file that will be used in absence of user-defined ones. Note: This chapter only explains the basics of the configuration of Qtile.