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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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How to set a default nmaster for all tags?

I'm running awesome-wm 3.5.6 and am looking for a way to set the default nmaster for all my tags to zero. The best I can do so far is call awful.tag.setnmaster(0) right after my tags are created in my rc.lua. However, this only sets the nmaster…
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are there any events related to awful.prompt in Awesome WM 3.5?

I would like to know if it is possible to catch events from an awful.prompt widget like an event when the widget is activated with: myprompt:run() or when the user press Enter to validate his entry or Esc to leave/quit this widget.
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Widget on backroud of widget

Is it posible in awesome wm to draw widget upper the other widget? As example: draw texbox with some text(percentages) on progressbar. Here is worked solution local function make_stack(w1, w2) local ret = wibox.widget.base.make_widget() …
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Two monitors, how to remove one list in one of them?

I have two monitors, so when I start awesome I get a list of tags in each monitor. How to remove the list in one of them? Ubuntu 14.04 and 3.4.15
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AwesomeWM promptbox background

How to set up background image for prompt box in awesomewm? Tried: mypromptbox:set_bg() - Crash mypromptbox:set_bgimage() - Crash mypromptbox:run({textbox = myWiboxBackgroundWidget}) - No result mypromptbox = awful.widget.prompt({textbox =…
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AwesomeWM, get an array of all the managed clients

Is it possible (and how) to get an array of all the managed clients in awesomeWM? I currently do it using the managed signal, adding the client to an array that I can acess later. But I'm only half satissfied with that solution. Indeed, I don't…
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Volume widget works except for one error

Every time I use my keybindings I get an error /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/key.lua:42: attempt to call upvalue 'press' (a string value) Line 42: ret[#ret]:connect_signal("press", function(kobj, ...) press(...) end) Here's all the lines around…
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network manager dispatcher script fail to restart the awesome wm

I want the awesome wm to run with different configuration when the network environment is changed. Therefore I wrote a script in the network manager dispatcher so that when the network environment change the script will be executed; #!/bin/bash #…
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awesomeWM - how to propose several rc file to awesome so it doesn't crash?

How to propose several rc files to awesome so it doesn't crash? The idea is to have a rescue rc file in addition to the normal rc file. The rescue file is read, only if the normal one failed (so awesome doesn't crash during a restart). What I…
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Google Chrome does not render page after losing focus in AwesomeWM

I have installed fresh Arch Linux with linux-ck and awesomewm. After that I have installed google-chrome and started it. Everything works well, but if I open other application (chrome lose focus) and then got back to the chrome, it freezes. Mouse…
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How to get the PID of awesome-wm

I'm trying to get the Process ID of my Awesome Windows Manager and failing miserably at it. Of the examples below I also tried using "awesome-wm" as my search string. I'm pretty sure there is an obvious solution to this. So far I've tried: $ pgrep…
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Empathy not opening on correct tag in Awesome-WM

I have created a rule for my instant messenger, empathy, to always start on the "im" tag. { rule = { class = "Empathy" }, properties = { tag = tags[1][5] } }, At the end of rc.lua, I auto-start it…
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Awesome WM 3.5 seperate config files

I'm not sure if it is ok to ask about this things here so tell me if it is not :) . I have no idea where else to ask. I have problem with Awesome WM. I try to separate rc.lua into different files (because is starts to be long) and just load them in…
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Tags unexpectedly switch on Libreoffice interaction when using "wmname LG3D"

When using wmname LG3D (to fix a Java app display in awesome), hitting "File" in Libreoffice results in unexpected behavior: opposite display switches tags to match that of Libreoffice (e.g., Libreoffice open in tag 5, display 2 ... hitting…
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How can I retrieve user input using awesome wm?

I'd like to retrieve a string from the user using awesome. I'll use this string to dynamically create a new tag. I just need some function that I can call that will take input from the keyboard and return the text that was typed in.
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