AwesomeWM nice is not loading

Question

I am one version 4.3 of awesomeWM so that should be correct. I have git cloned nice into ~/.config/awesome and added these lines after beautiful.init(...):

local nice = require("nice")
nice()

Upon reloading i get this error:

/user/share/lua/5.3/Gdk.lua:23 bad argument #1 to 'registerlock' (userdata expected, got nil)

and

Error while running function!
stack traceback:
[C] in function 'lgi.corelgilua51.registerblock'
/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/override/Gdk.lua:23 in main chunk
[C] in function 'require'
/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/namespace.lua:183: in function 'lgi.init.require'
(...tail calls...)
/home/dev/.config/awesome/nice/init.lua:57: in main chunk
[C] in function 'require'
/home/dev/.config/awesome/rc.lua:50: in main chunk
error: /usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/override/Gdk.lua:23: bad argument #1 to 'registerlock' (userdata expected, got nil)```

Quick look at their doc. Did you use the branch for v4.3 or the branch for git-master? If git-master, try with the correct branch? — Emmanuel Lepage Vallee, Jan 13 '23 at 06:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 20 '23 at 15:37

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I fixed this by changing "local gdk = lgi.Gdk" to "local gdk = lgi.require('Gdk', '3.0')" in the init.lua of nice. Also, make sure the branch is pointing to origin/awesome-4v3-stable

edited Mar 20 '23 at 15:37

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answered Mar 11 '23 at 15:13

Umar Abdullah

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AwesomeWM nice is not loading

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