Awesome is a highly configurable framework window manager extensible using lua.
Official site: http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Questions tagged [awesome]
193 questions
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How to maximise a window horizontal or vertically?
In awesome, what key binding can you use to maximise a window (in floating mode, of course) so that it maximise in just the horizontal or just the vertical direction?
I know that mod4 + m will maximise it fully in both directions so I kind of assume…
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How to jump to previous window in history in awesome wm?
I'm new to awesome wm and I would like to set a shortcut that brings me back to the previous window (in history) no matter if it's on the current tag, another tag or even on another screen (like Alt+Tab in Gnome or Windows).
By default, there is…
MaxGyver
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How to switch tags via awesome API
I've been digging around in the API documentation, and I'm having limited sucess
switching tags from within awesome-client. Basically, I can switch tags with:
awful.tag.viewidx(2)
But that is relative not absolute. From looking in my rc.lua,…
nomadicME
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change to a specific screen in awesome wm
Is it possible to switch to a specific screen via hotkeys in awesome wm (v4.0)?
Say you have screens DP-1-2, DP-2-2 and eDP-1. You now want to switch to screen DP-1-2 regardless of which screen you are currently on.
Preferably one could use the same…
user346830
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How to bring an awesome wm client back from being minimized with the keyboard?
You can switch between clients with ModJ and ModK.
You can minimize clients with ModN.
But once you've minimized a client; how do you switch to it so you can display it normally again with some other keyboard combination?
When I use ModJ and ModK…
leeand00
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awesome wm font issue
I have an awesome-copycats conf and since last Arch Linux update I have no more font on the topbar widget. Every single character is a square.
That is affecting taglist, clock and so on.
Basically what is defined by:
theme.font …
mickro
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Prevent closing of plasma-desktop in Awesome WM
I run KDE with Awesome WM. Sometimes, I have no window (client) open and press Mod4+C to close a window, but plasma-desktop is selected. So it kills plasma-desktop which makes my background image and other background things.
Is there some way to…
Martin Ueding
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Awesome wibox: remove tag label
Currently, I have both the gajim and skype windows visible as both icons (in systray) and window labels (in mytasklist). How can I remove that latter so that it is not shown since I do not need two instances of the same thing cluttering my wibox.
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Awesome widget formatted print
I have the following widget definition:
netwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(netwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '${p17p1 down_kb} ${p17p1 up_kb}', 3)
Which prints network…
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Is there a function to move and resize a client with absolute values?
There is the function awful.client.moveresize but this simply increments or decrement current values. How to move and resize a window to absolute values ?
ChiseledAbs
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Tag a client to multiple screens
Using Awesome Window Manager, I am trying to tag one client to multiple screens. I tried to use the following configuration in my rc.lua, but it does not work:
{ rule = { class = "" },
callback = function(c) c:tags({ tags[1][2],…
JonasVautherin
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Dark Theme for Applications Launched Within Awesome Window Manager
I have awesome installed onto a system that doesn't have a desktop environment installed. For now, I'm satisfied with the default theme of awesome itself, but I need to apply a dark theme to all the applications I launch within awesome.
So far, in…
Lonnie Best
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How can I set $PATH for awesome window manager prompt
I'm using awesome 3.5.9 in Debian Testing. /bin/bash is my user's shell. My ~/.profile reads
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
And in my ~/.bashrc I have…
andreas-h
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How to assign a tag to a floating window in Awesome WM?
I have assigned a specific tag and screen to windows with the class "jetbrains-idea":
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
[...]
{ rule_any = { class = { "Digikam", "Gimp", "Hugin", "Inkscape", "Keepassx", "libreoffice-startcenter",…
l0b0
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Focusing a client by indicating its direction from the currently focused client
Using the awesome window manager (version 3.5.6), I'm looking for a way to move may focus to the left/right/up/down relative to my currently focused client. For instance, given this layout:
+-----+-----+-----+
| | | |
| A | B | C …
