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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: Position of context menus with Radical

I'm currently trying to make myself familiar with the Radical menu subsystem of Awesome Window Manager. I want to create a simple menu like the ones you could also make with awful.menu. My code looks like this (of course this is not the complete…
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Anti-aliasing in the awesome window manager

Ok so basically, can we somehow get anti-aliasing in the awesome window manager? The fonts look amazing and everything but it would be really nice to have anti-aliasing applied to regular widgets in awesome. Anti-aliased round-cornered titlebars…
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How to change the titlebar's bgimage scale

I have a certain picture I want to turn into my titlebar background, but I don't know how to make it strech so it fits the entire titlebar. Any advice?
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Awesome WM: how does radial gradient work

Trying to make vignette-like gradient - from center of the screen to sides, from semi-transparent to black using radial pattern gradient. Having widget of size of the screen with following bg: bg =…
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awesome-wm wibox not reacting to mouse signals when input_passthrough is true

Basically, what I'm trying to do is have a sidebar, and have it show up when I move my mouse to the left edge of the screen, and have the sidebar disappear when I move my mouse TOO MUCH away from the sidebar. So I made three widgets: one that's one…
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Awesome wm doesn`t assume correct locale

I upgraded my Ubuntu to bionic (from xenial) recently and everything seems to work just fine, except that locale in awesome doesn't seem to work. In Ubuntu`s default window manager I configured it and it worked as expected. In awesome, however, none…
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Configuring context-sensitive menu

I'm using the vertex theme from https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats. However, I'm seeing several applications in the context-sensitive menu which I don't even have installed, and want to remove them. For example, AVAHI SSH Session, IntelliJ…
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awesome-wm: how do I change the tiling layout to prefer 3x2 (cols x rows) instead of 2x3?

How can I change awesome to prefer more narrow windows over wide windows. I have a fancy 4k monitor with plenty of space, but for example when I have 6 windows open, all the layours prefer showing me a 2x3 layout instead of 3x2. awful.tag.incncol(…
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AwesomeWM - open/close window callback

I have following idea: I have a wallpaper in 2 version. One original and second a bit blurry. I want to change the wallpaper from original when first window/program opens on the screen. Once the last window/program is closed change the wallpaper…
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Fresh ubuntu 18.04 and awesome-wm gnome-control-center is dead

Fresh install of ubuntu 18.04 then standard apt-install of awesome with awesome-extra. Awesome --version returns awesome v4.2 (Human after all) • Compiled against Lua 5.3.3 (running with Lua 5.3) • D-Bus support: ✔ • execinfo support: ✔ •…
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Problem while trying to install Awesome-VM in Alpine Linux

I'm trying to install the Awesome VM in Alpine Linux following this tutorial. I have passed the following commands: $ sudo apk add awesome feh lxterminal $ sudo apk add lua $ setup-xorg-base Then and all the commands in the "Start Your Desktop"…
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How to prevent awesome from changing focus when a mouse click occurs?

I'm using AwesomeWM 4.2 under Xfce4. I'm using xfpanel. In rc.lua, I have done the following to prevent the xfpanel getting focus: -- from https://github.com/zhangkun83/awesome-config/blob/d947e70041fad3e5f34bb832162cacaac62736b1/rc.lua#L492) {…
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alsabar widget not getting displayed (lain)

I'm trying to add a soundbar to an already existing theme I got. The theme already includes lain so I'm trying to use alsabar since it's already included. Awesome version: awesome v4.2 (Human after all) • Compiled against Lua 5.3.4 (running…
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Auto start programs on specific screen tags

My goal is to automatically start a few programs on specific tags when awesome first runs, e.g. starting Chromium on screen 1, tag 1; starting gVim on screen 2, tag 1. I've found a few places online that advocate using the following…
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Fullscreen wine apps minimizing in awesome-wm

My fullscreen wine app, game for example, minimizing when loosing focus. I switch tag in awesome-wm and when I am back, I should press hotkey to run awful.client.restore(). If this game has 'windowed' mode and it enabled, game not minimizing. I…
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