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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Building an awesome 3.5 config for two-step actions
Not sure exactly how to phrase this, but I'm trying to construct a lua method to be able to have two key commands for an action
say meta-r,4 Where I'd push meta and R and then release both keys and push 4, and it would say, put a client on monitor…
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How do I open :Rpreview in a seperate window?
I'm using awesome WM and every time I use :Rpreview (the T-Pope rails.vim plugin) it opens localhost on another tab where I've left my browser (chromium) open. How can I make it open under the current tab in a new window?
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AwesomeWM time not updating?
I'm using AwesomeWM, and I'm trying to display the time in my wibox using this code
vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, os.date("%b ")..(os.date("%d")+0).. ', ' ..(os.date("%I")+0)..os.date(":%M")..string.lower( os.date(" %p ")),…
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How to output lowercase strings in AwesomeWM rc.lua?
I'm using AwesomeWM vicious datewidget. I'm trying to output the date and time in wibox, in my rc.lua, with this format Feb 17, 12:10 AM (%b %d, %l:%M:%p) but I want the AM(%p) to be lowercase.
I've tried: vicious.register(datewidget,…
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thunderbird - number of underad messages, from .sqlite base
I want to make a small plugin for awesome WM that will show a number of unread messages pending in Thunderbird. I want to fetch the number of messages accessing directly Thunderbird sqlite base. The question is: which base, table and fields should I…
Jakub M.
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Having the apps in the task bar always in the same order. Open apps on the right of the others
I would like to have some apps (which I open when starting my session) always in the same order in the task bar. Is that possible?
Vim | Chrome | Terminal
Another question: for now, when I open an app, it is opened on the left part of the task bar,…
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how to create a widget layer in awesome wm with compton for screenlets
My google foo has produced no answers, and I'm not sure if this is something that would be implemented in compton, or awesome, or both need to be configured (compton is a fork of xcompmgr-dana)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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awesome wm launch bar widget doesn't appear?
From the wiki, I only change the shortcut folder to /home/quanta/.config/awesome/launchbar/ which contains one testing file with content:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox
Exec=firefox
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firefox.png
Position=1
This…
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Neither Nitrogen or FEH Work in Autostart if Xrandr also in Autostart
If I put nitrogen --restore in awesome config file lua.rc, the desktop opens with the correct wallpaper. However, if I add xrandr to config file the resolution is successfully set but nitrogen no longer works. Instead I get a black screen and…
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Would I be able to use the XEmbed extension to implement titlebars, and arbitrary embedding of clients in my window manager?
I'm writing a window manager that is similar to AwesomeWM in that it will be configurable with lua, will have a UI system to awesome's wibox, but with some additional niceties like built-in animation support, among other things.
I know AwesomeWM…
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Is there a way to run lua scripts using awesomewm library?
I know i can create scripts and import them to the rc file or that i can run keymaps for it.
Can i lets say create a script (script.lua) and run it with my terminal.
I tried running awesome-client on my terminal an passing the script path as the…
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Open program in focused screen's tag and be persistent on it in Awesomewm
In awesomewm whenever I open a new client it opens in current focused tag, but If I move my focus to another tag it then opens in that tag.
I want it to open in my current tag where I tried to spawn it.
So, If I am on tag "1" and I spawn client X…
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AwesomeWM colors and values in progressbar and other wibox widgets do not update
I set up signals and functions to update colors of my container.background widgets and also one to update progressbar value and color according to battery level, but it doesnt work, any manipulations with widgets seems not working except changing…
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Awesome WM launchbar
anyone out there experienced with the awesome WM? If so here is a question:
I have a problem getting my launchbar to appear in the status bar. The setup works fine on my single monitor computer at home but at work I have a dual monitor setup and I…
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Iterate through all selected tasks. Awesome Window Manager
Access to all selected tasks in my taskslist. Awesome WM
I defined the following tasklist:
s.mytasklist = awful.widget.tasklist {
screen = s,
filter = awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags,
buttons =…
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