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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 and YouTube (html5) window issue

As a rule for Firefox, I have every window automatically start maximized (not fullscreen). The window is horizontally and vertically maximized, with the awesome panel up top. However, if I go to YouTube and decide on making the video fullscreen, and…
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awesome-wm: Possible to to map Alt+Shift?

Using Debian (jessie) and the "awesome" window manager (3.4.15), I can't figure out how to map Ctrl+Alt to a command. I would like to switch my keyboard layout like on a windows box. This is what I do to test the mapping: awful.key({…
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awesome wm - how to bind a key to another key

I'm new to awesome wm and I'm trying to bind a key to another key. e.g. When I press alt+j, it will act like I just pressed the down key on keyboard. I don't know whether awesome wm has this function or not? Any function like this? awful.key({…
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AwesomeWM urxvt paste clipboard via keyboard

I know things similar to this have been asked many times. I've recently made the switch from Gnome to Awesome. My current terminal is urxvt. Using the copy buffer is fine, I know I can insert into the terminal from this using [CTRL]+[Ins] (or…
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Unit testing a moonscript awesome config

What I am trying to do to learn some lua/moonscript is migrate my awesome configuration file (rc.lua) to moonscript and unit-test a few things along the way. For this I set up rc.lua to require the moonscript config file like this package.path =…
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How to set a custom icon of any client for the tasklist in awesomeWM v3.5.6?

if (c.class == "Google-chrome") then c.icon = capi.image ( "/home/art-attack/.config/awesome/icons/chrome.png" ) end I tried it but I always got an error i.e attempt to call field 'image' (a nil value) { rule = { class = "Google-chrome" }, …
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Awesome WM does not maximize windows anymore

Yesterday my awesome configuration was able to maximize window (in any layout I use (tiled/floating)) but now the maximize command does exactly nothing. I've looked config file (rc.lua) and did not found any incorrect code there. Here is my client…
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Detect right and left shift keys pressed together from within Awesome WM

I want to have Awesome WM run a command when both Shift keys (left and right) are pressed together. I know Linux can differentiate between the two shift keys (e.g., one can tell Gnome to change the keyboard layout when both Shift keys are pressed…
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lua and "module 'gears' not found:"

I have the awesome rc.lua file , awesome 3.5 and lua 5.2 .When i use awesome -k i get the following result: mohsen@debian:~$ awesome -k ✔ Configuration file syntax OK. But when i use : mohsen@debian:~$ lua .config/awesome/rc.lua lua:…
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Awesome wm is unable to bring up any windows or a terminal

I just installed awesome wm and entered startx. The interface was brought up. I have the awesome background, the functional clock and tag list. but 'hotkey+enter' doesn't bring up a terminal window. Selecting the awesome logo in the top-left > 'open…
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Awesome WM: master windows count

Im just start using Awesome WM. Everything looks great especially multihead for my secondary monitor, the only one confusing thing is count of master window count and count of columns for non-master windows. Everything is clear about idea how it…
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awesome wm/vicious widget: using a format function throws a bad argument error

I am configuring the widgets in awesome wm (v3.5.5-1) using vicious (v2.1.3-1). I want to show the time in a widget. And then show the date in the tooltip when I hover over the time widget. The following code using vicious in my rc.lua file works…
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Tabcompletion and docview while editing rc.lua

I saw that there is a lua plugin for eclipse and there is a docpage on the awesome main page api_doc and all the .lua files in /usr/share/awesome/lib. So I thought it must be possible to create a Library or Execution Environment so that one has…
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Eclipse slow typing

I have eclipse running under awesome-wm. The program itself runs fine but keyboard input has a lag ~300ms which is really annoying. Also scrolling with mouse is ok, but scrolling with PGup or PGdown or arrow keys is laggy, and when entering text…
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local variable only works when declaring it on another line

I'm having trouble understanding the following. I have the following code: awful.key({ "Mod1" }, "Tab", function (c) local grabber = awful.keygrabber.run( function(mod, key, event) if grabber == nil then …
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