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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How to open a program in a specific tag in AwesomeWM from command line?
I would like to open a program on a given tag ("virtual desktop"). I roughly know how to do it depending on a program, but now I'd like to be able to decide where to run it from command line. Is that possible? If so, how?
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AwesomeWM - Fullscreen problems (-> videos, wrong moonitor)
I have the problem that the Fullscreen always switches the monitor to my left one (nonprimary), even if it was on my right one before.
Also, youtube or other videos I cant even enter fullscreen mode, it instantly exits, with chromium and with…
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AwesomeWM - Margins not being respected when using wibox:setup(...)
Apparently, using :setup() on a widget doesn't make use of the margin container inside it, and only shows up if the height and width properties are set. Below two examples. Both declarative style. First one working and adjusting depending on the…
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AwesomeWM: count number of elements in systray
I have my systray setup and works well. However, when it is empty it's keeping a big blank space and i'd like to get rid of that by hiding the tray with something like visibility = false. Is there a way to count the number of icons and hide it when…
Mario Davó
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How to rescale screen with awesome
After installed awesome wm, I used xrandr to change my resolution with
xrandr -s 1920x1080
but the screen seem to be at 50% of scale
Tried to restart awesome wm but not working
So how do I re-scaling it to 100%
Scaling resolution to 100%
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Would it be difficult to have AwesomeWM use the cairo-gl backend of cairo?
Basically, the question. As far as I know, AwesomeWM does not use the cairo-gl backend when using cairo.
Would it be difficult to make AwesomeWM maybe check "do we have a gpu? if yes, do we have OpenGL support? if yes, use the cairo-gl backend. if…
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Awesomewm - Dividing rc.lua
a few days ago I began to hit Awesomewm and a doubt came to me to customize. By standard AWM comes with a unique configuration file called RC.Lua, I would like to separate my Key Bindings from separate…
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Awesome WM adding a keybinding to the Super_L key blocks other key commands from working properly
I'm trying to implement some Super-Tab functionality into awesome-wm so that it acts in a similar way to alt tab, going through tags in order of last used rather than just a set order.
However I've run into an issue, which is that binding something…
Harris The third
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Synchronize a timer with textclock refresh in AwesomeWM
I try to synchronize a cairo surface's update with my textclock refresh.
Is it possible to hook a gears.timer to textclock's one? or should I create a textbox and use the same gears.timer to update both?
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Awesome WM - change titlebar on layout change
i am trying to remove the titlebar in Awesome wm 4.3 when the layout changes (in my case) to "max.fullscreen":
client.connect_signal("focus", function(c)
if awful.layout.getname() == "fullscreen" then
awful.titlebar.hide(c)
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How can I code a keybindings sequence in Awesome WM?
My problem is that the basic option to make keybindings in Awesome WM (Window Manager), awful.key(), doesn't work for keybindings like [super+d, e] or [super+d, super+r].
I found a way to do it, but is impractical. Maybe some parameter of…
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Awecome WM move tile on another monitor
Please tell me if I can somehow move tiles not only between the tags on one monitor, but also from the tags of one monitor to the tags of the second monitor?
I can switch between monitors with Shift + j and Shift + k
I use awesome config from arco…
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Segfault when using `lgi.Pango.AttrList.change` in AwesomeWM
Some context:
I am writing a font-previewing application, and one of the things I have to do very often is change the size of the text. As you can see in the image, someone drags the "Size" slider, and the application has to change the size of all…
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Playerctl No players found
Sadly I'm getting
No players found
error when I run
playerctl -l
I have the daemon running:
playerctld daemon
in my ~/.xinitrc i added this like it says on the github page (https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl):
exec dbus-launch…
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AwesomeWM: How best should I have only one active screen?
My new daily driver is a Zephyrus G14, upon which I've installed Arch and AwesomeWM.
I'm attempting to have it automatically move all windows and workspaces from my internal laptop display to my external monitor whenever I plug it in... and to…
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