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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When resizing the appletviewer window the canvas size does not change
For my CS11 class, I have to write a small applet that draws a horizontal and vertical line on the screen that intersect in the middle of the canvas. One part of the assignment is to be able to move one or both lines when the user clicks on a line…
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Awesome WM current layout
I'm wanna to write polybar module that displaying awesome current screen layout.
Does awesome have function to return current screen layout with string or image?

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JFrame's position and pack() in Awesome WM
every time when I call pack() method on JFrame, it moves to the initial position where was when started. When I try to get the location of the JFrame (getLocation, getLocationOnScreen) it's still the same as initial position no matter I'm moving the…

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How to use awesome WM with LXSession (LXDE, Lubuntu)
I have Lubuntu. But when i tried to use clean Awesome WM, i thought that can i use awesome WM with GTK themes. I this possible?
I tried to run awesome, but got:
E: awesome: main:463: another window manager is already running
Also, clean Awesome WM…

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client's cairo surfaces screenshots
I just discovered screenshots possibilities using client.content property.
So to test this functionnality, I put this code and bind it to the XF86Reload key :
awful.key({ }, "XF86Reload", function() …

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How do i create a AwesomeWM theme
i have come across awesomeWM recently and want to create a new theme but i don't know how to create one and how it works i have searched google many times on how to create a awesomewm theme and the results didn't say anything

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Awesome WM and XFCE
dear Awesome team! I just wanna ask you, will any problems be if i use XFCE and Awesome wm on my Debian Linux?
2 actions can be:
I use Awesome WM as defautl WM of XFCE insted of xfwm4.
I use Awesome WM and XFCE in differents sessions.
Can I get…

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How to install awesomewm-git on ubuntu
I want to install awesomewm on ubuntu but there are a lot of dependencies for it. I have to search for each dependency on google and still can't find it. Is there a easy way to install the awesomewm (git version)?

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