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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No RandR 1.5 support in test install of awesome 4.0, what to check?
Of course I think I've installed all the dependencies. The new API docs look great but I can't find any installation debugging tips. I'm chasing references to RandR in the build directory with grep, trying to figure out what exactly the version…
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Background image not set in awesome window manager
I am trying to set the background to my fresh awesome window manager running on a raspberry pi V2.
I followed carefully the begginers guide on
https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/documentation/07-my-first-awesome.md.html#
but when I restart X, the…
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Resizing window to maximum size
is there a way to resize the current window to maximal size in Awesome wm? Something like maximizing, but without locking the maximum-ness. Currently, when I want to maximize a floating window I cycle through the layouts, the non-floating layouts…
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AwesomeWM client created/removed callback
I am using awesome WM and I want to run a lua function after a client is created/deleted. Specifically, I want to change the name of a tag to the name of one of the clients that are on the tag.
I do this with a timer, but I think the best way to do…
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How can I capture which taglist button was clicked?
I've noticed that the taglist buttons don't accept middle mouse events for the default config.
I am hoping to add it to mine, with a twist!
Using the middle mouse button, I would like to run a different command for each tag. The only thing I'm…
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Awesome WM: Ignore wibox geometry
I've been tweaking my rc.lua for a while now, and, in favor of a cleaner look, thought of having the wibox as not visible by default.
I already have the means to toggle the visibility, and set it to not visible by default.
The problem is with the…
sferaud
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Awesome WM: How can I iterate through all clients in all tags?
modkey+j or modkey+k only cycles between clients in the same tag.
How can I cycle through all clients disregarding the tag they are? Is it possible?
Thanks
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Search files in awesome windows manager
I have recently switched to awesome windows manager. There I find only way to open an application is from menu option or directly typing command from run prompt Ctrl +
r . But there is no feature for search files and folders as in unity/gnome. Is…
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lgi core module fails to load within lua
Disclaimer: I do not know that much about Lua, so there might be a error on my part. Nonetheless it's interesting and awesomewm requires it.
Recently I installed awesomeWm and it run perfectly. Afterwards I messed a bit around with the rc.lua and…
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In awesome-wm: How to prevent mouse from leaving a client? (e.g. fullscreen or windowed game)
Can anyone give me a hint how to prevent the mouse from leaving a certain window or fullscreen game? Tried it with three steam games (Satellite Reign, Cities:Skylines & Civ 5), all have the same issue: As soon as I move the mouse on the border (for…
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Where is rc.lua called in Awesome WM?
I have installed awesome on Ubuntu 14.04 through apt-get. I can modify the rc.lua file just fine, but I'd like to know where it's called so that any print() statements I have in rc.lua can be teed to a log file.
I cannot find rc.lua in the default…
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Why am i getting this run time error in lua of bad argument #-1 to '_newindex' (string expected, got nil)
I was configuring the transparency in my rc.lua file for my awesome wm. I am now getting the error mentioned in the title. I have since opened up my original rc.lua thats located in /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua and made it exactly the same, yet i still…
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How to pass DISPLAY information in lua language?
I am running Arch linux and trying to configure awesome WM for two graphics cards with two Screens. So, I am running awesome twice, each one on different display. So, in
.xprofile
DISPLAY=:0.1 awesome &
while awesome running in DISPLAY=:0.0…
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How do I make the foreground color of my awesome wm taskbar's selected window transparent?
I'm using Awesome WM v.3.4.15. I've searched all around and only found the suggestion to add two hex digits to the hex color value of the background color of the selected window in theme.lua but after doing that and reloading it only makes it grey.…
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Send future clients to right monitor in awesome?
I'm trying to implement a very customized implementation of awesome.
I have two monitors. I'd like to have my first client always open on the left monitor (a Chrome window in kiosk mode), then all clients after open up on the right monitor.
Are…
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