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.
Questions tagged [awesome-wm]
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Activate vicious.widgets.net widget only if interface is available
I have the following widget using vicious in my rc.lua:
-- Initialize widget Ethernet
ethwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
--…
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Start client fullscreen doesn't cover wibox
When a client is started, it should be started fullscreen. I tried to configure this using rules but no matter what I do, the client doesn't cover the wibox.
What I have so far:
function set_fullscreen(c)
mywibox[c.screen].ontop = false
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listen for a keyboard event in a limited timeperiod
I'm trying to configure a keyboard event in the awesome wm which should work like this:
After Key "XF86AudioMute" is pressed the user has 2 seconds to press a number key (from 0 - 9) in order to activate the event.
If none of these keys is pressed…
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How to restrict Youtube player fullscreen still within the window, I don't want to have real fullscreen
I have the awesome config like this below:
{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" },
properties = { floating = false },
callback = awful.titlebar.hide },
I don't want to have my Youtube fullscreen really playing fullscreen, but instead it…
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Global hotkeys for next track in awesome wm
How do you deal with function keyboard and with keys:
XF86AudioPlay
XF86AudioPause
XF86AudioPrev
XF86AudioNext
in awesome wm?
I've made shortcuts to raise/lower/mute using the volume buttons in rc.lua
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume",…
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awesome WM how to change tag of screen
I would like to change a tag assign to one screen and move it to the other screen with the clients inside it.
following the api https://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/awful.tag.html I see that I can move a tag, but it seems that it has to stay…
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Awesome window manager has horizontal tearing?
so i am having an issue with awesome (running Debian but doesn't matter because it does this on all my hardware). video gets ripples along the middle(vlc and mplayer and totem), scrolling no matter what app. never really cared much until i switched…
Julian
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Awesome desktop manager widgets
I came upon this problem before, but only now it really renders awesome desktop manager useless.
I was searching how to connect to Wifi with awesome. Found Gigamo Wifi Widget. Cool, how do I eat it?
The awesome wiki entry on widgets does not really…
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Strange behaviour of lua code (AwesomeWM config)
With this piece of code in my rc.lua (configuration file of AwesomeWM) I get what you see in image bellow:
mybattmon = wibox.widget.textbox()
function battery_status ()
local output={}
local fd=io.popen("acpi", "r")
local line=fd:read()
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Display a widget with a timeout in Awesome Wm with Lua
I want to display a wibox in awesome when a combinaison of keys are pressed and I want that this wibox disappears after 3 seconds for example. I don't want to use naughty or popup because the wibox will have widgets inside.
I have already a solution…
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Change icon color by means of awesome wm
In awesome wm 3.5 you can create custom widgets using cairo to draw its visual. I want a widget which displays monochrome PNG icon (like wibox.widget.imagebox do it) and allows quickly change its color. I tried modify several lines in draw function…
user3469333
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awesome wm taglist size
Can't find any manual about changing width of taglist element size.
Taglist element is wider than icons I had set. It looks really awful =(
Screenshot: http://s12.postimg.org/fkva7xywd/Screenshot_16_02_2014_16_04_07.png
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AwesomeWM wallpaper change
When I am using Awesome-WM under Linux Mint 13 "Maya" MATE, sometimes I need to open the File Manager "Caja". But when I launch caja, the wallpaper changes to the one I set under MATE instead of the one in rc.lua. I have tried
sudo gsettings set…
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how to specify persistent hard drive for disk widgets of awesome wm?
I am using dio and hddtemp widgets (Vicious) to display IO rate and hard drive temperature. The problem is that I have to change the input device name every time I reboot the computer, because the order in which the devices are added during booting…
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How to remove titlebar when maximising youtube videos in awesome 3.5?
Since I migrated from awesome 3.4 to 3.5 I am unable to remove titlebar from youtube videos when maximising fullscreen.
In awesome 3.4 I used to put:
{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" },
properties = { floating = true } },
and…
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