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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 add padding to my alacritty terminal in awesomeWM

So, Im slowly learning lua, awesomewm, and how to configure my os. Now I have a beautiful terminal, but it has no padding, so characters basically touch the edge and its not very aesthetic. Im not sure if I should configure my rc.lua (awesomewm…
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AwesomeWM Remove wibar's space

I have 3 wibar for topbar and looks fine: but when i open any app it have a margin top how if the 3 wibar was in column, same for notifications and popups. Then i want remove that space, how could i make it, it's my…
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awesome-wm polkit authentication agent?

Polkit authentication agent on awesome-wm? I have problems when opening balenaEtcher for usb-flashing. It instantly gives me an error saying: "No polkit authentication agent found" My questions now is, which polkit-aa should be installed when using…
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AwesomeWM, Snapping in floating mode

in the AwesomeWM, (on a fresh Arch install) I am looking for a way to snap windows to the left/right side of the screen in the floating mode. A bit like in say Cinnamon (Mint). I am unable to do it, even after many attempts. I want to use something…
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Execute custom command in awesomewm tooltip

I have a simple widget to display free memory: myFreeMemory = awful.widget.watch('bash -c "free -h | awk \'/^Mem:/ {print $3}\'"', 1) This line produces a single number. I would like to create a tooltip for it that runs a custom command: local…
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How to write correctly my own hotkey on lua for Awesome WM?

I tried to add my own hotkey in my Awesome WM by editing rc.lua file. Following the example of the structure of other hotkeys which are working correctly like: awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart, {description = "reload…
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When increasing resolution all GUI text and buttons etc gets larger

I'll show you three examples where you see the increase in size due to the text in the terminal. I change the res with xrandr, the pic1 has 800x600 and seems OK, then in pic2 I changed res to 1856x1392 and it also seems OK but after I restart…
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Awesome naughty notifications

I'm creating a widget for Awesome based on playerctl. When i test with awesomeclient it works fine. awesome-client ' local stdout = "Playing;Eurythmics;Miracle of Love;file:///home/mgaber/Workbench/awesome/stags1.7/testing/173308_26.png" local…
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Tiling rule is not always enforced

I am a long term user of XMonad trying Awesome for its more advanced ways of tiling. What I did: Opened an empty libreoffice window in a tiled workspace with several other windows opened. This window follows the tiling rule. Then loaded in this…
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Forcing Awesome to restart when connecting a new screen

I have some complicated screen and docking station setup and would like to automatically restart Awesome when docking and undocking. How can I tell Awesome to do that? I know the preferred way of doing things is to avoid restarting and using the…
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xrdp to connect to existing awesome wm

I am running Awesome WM on ubuntu 20.04. I am using xrdp to connect from to it from my mac. The problem is when i connect to it, a new session is created. Is it possible to connect to the existing session which is already running on the machine. My…
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awesomeWM: transparent wibar?

I use awesomewm and have a small conky configuration on top of my wallpaper with transparent background. Now i have the idea to change the behaviour of awesomewm to let this small area untouched. So when maximising a window (client?) or when…
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Refresh image memory in awesome WM

Here's a function to create a widget (currently a wibox) based on screen #1. The floutage.sh script creates a blur image of a current screenshot of this screen. When using this function, it's always the same blurred image showed: 1st blurred image…
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Is there something like "awful.client.focus.global_byidx()"?

I have two monitors and I would like to change client focused by shortcut. Right now I have awful.client.focus.byidx(1) but it only changes clients on one monitor. I know there is awful.client.focus.global_bydirection("right") that works on multiple…
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Can I run interval timers in AwesomeWM?

I am using Awesome 4.3 on Manjaro Linux (Arch) I changed from a KDE desktop to an XFCE desktop. I wrote a wallpaper switcher that will change the wallpaper randomly on four separate screens. I wrote the randomize routine in a standard Lua file for…
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