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awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager.

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awesome wm / Save application window size and location on different tags

Is it possible to save application window size and location on different tags, e.g. I want to have text editor on tag 1, browser on tag 2, and half-screen editor + half-screen browser on tag 3? There should be one instance of the browser and one…
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How do I chance the size of hotkeys_popup.show_help

My short key help is not tall enough to show all my shortcuts. Mod4 + s is the default binding to see the short cuts, when I use it I can see that the list is cut off and partially hidden. I am using AwesomeWm Version 4.3 Thanks for any help you may…
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awesome-wm: create a shortcut key for toggling view desktop

In awesome window manager, I want to create a shortcut to toggle show dekstop (like modkey + d) I i press ModKey + d then it should show destop and again i press Modkey + d it should show the windows like previously Is this possible
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How to force Awesome to show actual xterm title even when it is hidden?

When I hide an xterm apparently the Awesome WM transforms the title to simply "xterm" instead of showing the actual window's name. For example if I have this (querying with xwininfo): xwininfo: Window id: 0x5c0000d "xterm:john:$ top" Map State:…
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Start firefox unmaximized with selenium in python

I am using Selenium in Python with Firefox. Firefox is always started in maximized mode, which does not work very well with my tiling window manager Awesome on Linux. How can I prevent Firefox being opened in maximized mode with Selenium and Python?…
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Implementing i3-like binding modes in awesomeWM

I would like to have i3-like keybinding modes in awesomeWM. What seems to be the easiest way to implement it?
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What is incwfact and setwfact of awesome.client

I have been using awesome for some years and like it alot. I'm regularly using Super+h and Super+l to change with of master. But I would like to be able to change the hight of the active client (master or non-master) if ther is several in the same…
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awesomewm: a function to move all open clients to their designated screens/tags

Reading on the use of mod + x: run lua code I wanted to insert a function in my rc.lua that would move all opened clients (back) to their screens and tags. Everytime I take my laptop out of the docking the windows end up on one screen on the first…
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How do I install awesome WM on Ubuntu 19.04?

I have installed awesome via $ apt-get install awesome That adds awesome to the login screen's sessions menu but when I attempt to create an awesome session the screen goes briefly blank and then reverts to login. Any suggestions?
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Properties in awful.spawn make no change

Awesome v4.3. Trying to launch something in rc.lua. awful.spawn("xterm", { border_width = 0, titlebars_enabled = false, tag = "2", placement = awful.placement.bottom_right, }) xterm spawns, but the listed…
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Awesome WM wonky multi-monitor setup

I have a 3-monitor setup, except that 1 of my monitors is attached to a KVM switch that I switch between my computers. It seems like when Awesome WM starts up without the 3rd monitor accessible to it, it refuses to recognize it from that point on…
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awesomewm - Dualscreen Problem with VirtualBox

I have a problem with Virtualbox VM windows when I use a dualscreen configuration. I want to have the VM windows on the right hand screen, however, the window always "jumps" to the left hand screen if the resolution of the VM changes or if the…
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Roll up / shade floating windows in awesome?

I am trying out awesome at the moment coming from KDE/MATE since many years and I really like it a lot. There's really only one thing that I'm missing from my previous workflows. Occasionally I'm working with applications that have a lot of floating…
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Auto-generating widgets in awesome-wm

So what I currently want to do is pretty much implement rofi in awesome. The reason I want to do this and I don't just use rofi is because I want to learn how to 'auto-generate' widgets in awesome. This will come in handy later when I'll implement…
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Lua LGI unpack GLib.Variant object

I'm trying to get password from keyring for awesome-wm session (using DBus via lgi library). I'm able to find keyring entry path, open communication session and unlock entry. Then I call GetSecrets method and store result into secret…
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