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 do I set a custom colour for a category in awful.hotkeys_popup?
Each category/tag in awful.hotkeys_popup has a different colour (which is set randomly, I believe).
Is it possible to set the colour manually?
user13410977
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terminal calendar khal: Highlight current date when spawning with naughty.notify in awesome wm
I am trying to spawn khal, a terminal calendar, when mouse pressing the default textclock widget in awesome wm.
local cal_notification
mytextclock:connect_signal("button::release",
function()
if cal_notification == nil then
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AwesomeWM: Error when initialising a theme
I've currently started using the AwesomeWM and started configuring it. I struggle at theming: whenever I try to change the theme, I get this error message:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAbuW.png
It tells me that the error is on the line 553/554, but if…
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How to run latest version of awesome?
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What can I do to get to awesome >= 4.3?
About my problem
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and running awesome 4.2 (installed with apt). But now I want to use some widgets that uses awful.popup and that was introduced in awesome 4.3. o I thought I could…
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Is there any way to listen to mouse::enter signal for awful.menu
I've recently started to use and customize awesomewm, and I'm really happy with how all components work together and with the related documentation.
Though I'm sometimes really disturbed when using the menu (awful.menu) and it's nature to block some…
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Linux Awesomewm config exclude option from menubar
So I made my windows have rounded borders using
c.shape = gears.shape.rounded_rect
But this affects my menu bar as well (I'm using polybar) is there a way to say
if not menubar
when I tried this it made everything have sharp corners. But I only…
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AwesomeWM: Closing the prompt box in code without pressing Enter/Escape
I'm trying to add a keybinding to my rc.lua for shutting down my computer, which will display a prompt like "Shutdown (y/n)? ", and will call a shutdown if "y" is pressed, but will close if anything else is pressed. Here's my attempt so…
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Adding Russian yazerty keyboard prevents super + p and super + r to be effective
I have been running Awesome for quite a time with fcitx enabled for being able to use Japanese and French input. Everything was fine.
I have added Russian yazerty keyboard and then super + p and super + r are no longer effective while super + space…
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In awesomewm is it possible to "pass through" all key events to an application?
I use awesomewm with chrome remote desktop which is connected to a linux box with awesomewm as well. For the chrome remote desktop app, I'd like to send all keybindings down to the application. Instead, they get intercepted by the host.
Is it…
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Only terminal window resizing in Awesome WM
I am using awesome window manager (new to it). The normal keybinding for changing size for the window in tiling mode is Super+h & Super+L but it only resizes the terminal window (I am using alacrity & it is resizing that), but if I try to resize…
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Awesome WM help popup messed up (possible soluction with new function)
NOTE: I just started to use awesome not very long ago, and don't really know the lua programming language.
I cloned HikariKnight's awesome theme and started to customize the hotkeys. I have a logitech keyboard that has some launcher keys that will…
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Changing default focused screen on awesome wm
I have a bit of a hacky setup on my laptop where I use optimus-manager to configure my screen layout at X startup based on whether an external monitor is connected or not. If it is, I only want to use the external monitor and not the laptop monitor,…
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Awesome-WM: Spawn client on same tag as parent
My goal is to let clients that have a parent spawn on the same tag as their parents. Clients w/o parents should spawn on the active tag (as usual).
My first approach is to connect a signal using client.connect_signal("manage", ...). However, I…
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Awesome WM remove round corners for maximized windows
Why does this code fail?
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c)
if not c.maximized then
c.shape = gears.shape.rounded_rect
end
end)
client.connect_signal("property::maximized", function (c)
c.shape =…
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How to change window border in Awesome WM?
So, I just want to change the ugly default window border in Awsome WM, How do I do ?
Thanks for the answer !
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