How to run a bash with shortcut on awesome WM

Question

I'm new in Awesome WM and try to add a custom shortcut to run a bash file but it does not work.

awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, function () awful.util.spawn(./layout-ir.sh) end),

I add this behind of "Standard Program".

Thank you

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 11 '13 at 08:33

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First of all, I assume that you are using awesome 3.4.something since you tagged this as ubuntu. Then: You don't specify key for your shortcut, only modifiers. And lastly: you should use full path for command you want to run and put it in double quotations.

See example for binding Shift-e to run script from user home folder:

awful.key({ modkey,   "Shift" }, "e", function () awful.util.spawn("sh /home/USERNAME/myscript.sh") end),

edited Jan 11 '13 at 08:33

Chunliang Lyu

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answered Jan 11 '13 at 08:30

laite

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Thanks, yes i use awesome 3.4.13 and ubuntu 12.10. Unfortunately it - just like another answer - does not work > awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "o", function () awful.util.spawn("sh /home/hertkof/layout-ir.sh") end), – hertkof Jan 11 '13 at 11:54
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try without the `sh` preceeding `/home/hertkof...`. Good luck to all. – shellter Jan 11 '13 at 14:55

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '13 at 08:24

You need to provide full path to awful.util.spawn, say awful.util.spawn("~/.bin/layout-ir.sh").

Another mistake is you need to provide the key as second parameter for awful.key. So if you want to bind Win+Control+Shift+k as your shortcut, you need the following line:

awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.util.spawn("~/.bin/layout-ir.sh") end),

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '13 at 17:12

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try:

awful.util.spawn_with_shell("./layout-ir.sh")

answered Feb 12 '13 at 17:12

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How to run a bash with shortcut on awesome WM

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