Questions tagged [awesome]
Lightweight tiling window manager combining tiling and floating. Highly extensible through the Lua programming language.
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Brightness control on Awesome windowing manager
I have just installed Awesome WM and I have no options to change the screen brightness, and also its shortcut doesn't working. Any one can help?
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How do I apply themes to gtk applications when I'm using Awesome WM?
No matter what I use, e.g. gtk-ctheme, and the other apps availible in the repos, gtk applications running under Awesome WM stay ugly.
The same apps look fine when I use unity.
Any thoughts?
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How to change decimal comma to decimal period in numpad?
How to change the decimal comma ',' to decimal period '.' in the numeric pad of the keyboard?
I have used xmodmap but every time that I change my keyboard layout the changes (by xmodmap) are being ...
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What is the gnome command for the battery applet?
It used to be gnome-power-manager or something of that sort, but now I can't seem to find it. When I run gnome-session from within awesome, it loads all the applets, i.e. nm-applet and the keyboard ...
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How do I Install and Use Awesome WM?
How do I use Awesome WM with Ubuntu 12.04? How do I invoke Awesome instead of Unity? Any dangers to trying to install it - in other words can I mess up my graphical shell?
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How to add keyboard shortcuts to Awesome WM
I've installed awesome3 wm on Ubuntu Server 10.04. I managed it to work properly now I could use some keyboard shortcuts to start programs like gmrun, firefox or whatever.
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How to have a volume control/widget in Awesome WM?
Simple question but hard answer, i searched around in Google a solution to make a dynamic widget to control and see the volume with Awesome Window manager but i can't find a working solution.
Any one ...
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How can I define startup applications with the Awesome Window Manager?
I've been reading as much as I can online, but none of it seems to work (i.e. changing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua).
I've installed awesome window manager from the repos, and I log into it via GDM, and ...
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How can I permanently save a password-protected SSH key?
I am using Awesome Window Manager
How can I permanently add private keys with password?
Inspired by the answer here I have added the private keys in ~/.ssh/config
Contents of ~/.ssh/config:
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How to install the latest awesome window manager?
How do I install the latest awesome window manager on Ubuntu?
For example,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS contains awesome 3.5.6
Ubuntu 16.10 contains awesome 3.5.9
but the latest release as of now is 4.0.
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Is having Unity/awesome wm together possible? how can I do this?
I would like to have the menus, sidebar,the HUD, and the user friendliness ubuntu offers but I would like the window control and the window tiling capabilities of awesome together. Google has not ...
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Ubuntu 18 - Switching window manager
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, and want to try the Awesome window manager. I installed it with sudo apt install awesome. How can I switch between GNOME and Awesome?
I found this answer, but I can't see ...
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How to add 'awesome' selection in LightDM?
I installed awesome using apt-get, and after installation finished, I logged out to lightdm.
But there is no selection for awesome, only Unity and subtle (since I recently installed subtle).
What ...
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Recommended auto-mounter for tiling window managers?
What is the recommended way to automatically mount usb drives, optical media, hard drives, etc... with a tiling window manager on Ubuntu?
I am a big fan of tiling window managers, but I always look ...
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Can I set different backgrounds for different workspaces (tags) in Awesome WM?
I'd love to be able to set different backgrounds for different tabs in Awesome WM. Is there a way to do this?
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Fonts in menu are larger than they should be under Awesome WM
I upgraded to oneiric ocelot, running awesome wm. Everything works, more or less, fine but one thing I've noticed is that now my menu fonts and my menu symbols are larger than I'd like them to be.
I ...
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Awesome WM Does not Search for Wifi Networks?
When I start Awesome WM, it works fine but it does not start the daemon/application that searches for and connects to wifi networks.
How to make it do that both on startup as well as on demand since ...
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Starting awesome-wm when using startx?
I uninstalled gnome-session-fallback and gdm, when I start the machine, it boots in console mode. I can log in normally.
Using startx starts up the remnants of GNOME that are still on my machine (a ...
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How can I change the Xfce window manager to awesome?
I'd like to use the Awesome Window Manager with all the other XFCE4 environment daemons, like keyrings, panels, power managers, etc. Is there a way to do this?
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Configure run command in Awesome window manager
I am using the Awesome window manager - I like it.
When I press mod+R I get the run command on the top left of the screen. Here if I type in a command exactly correct it runs the application.
How ...
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How to have a clean *ubuntu and Awesome WM?
My request is quite simple. How can I get a *buntu distro but with awesome in it? How can I wipe off everything in Ubuntu (Unity & stuff) and get awesome WM?
What I'd like is *buntu ease of use + ...
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How do i set a solid color desktop in Awesome3?
I'm using version 3.4.9 (smack)
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How to setup Awesome WM with GNOME services on arbitrary Ubuntu?
tl;dr Is there a generic guide to set up GNOME background services to work with Awesome WM on any Ubuntu?
The official guide doesn't seem to have been updated since Ubuntu 11.10. Another guide is ...
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Print Screen in AWesome WM
I'm trying to make it so I can do a screen shot with with the PrintScrn button in Awesome WM. I found an ImageMagick script with keybinding in the Wiki, but I'm not able to make it work. The script ...
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In Awesome window manager, how do I add vicious widgets?
I do exactly what it says in the vicious README, but when I reload the configuration file, no widgets are added to the top bar. So for example, I add:
require("vicious")
at the top (after moving the ...
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How can I get awesome wm to recognize ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua?
I've been trying different configurations on awesome wm, but suddenly awesome stopped loading ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua on startup, and now only loads the default configuration at /etc/xdg/awesome/rc....
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Cycle through clients on both screens in awesomewm
I am using awesomewm and have two monitors, so Mod4+j and Mod4+k cycle through windows on current screen only. Is there a way to cycle through all windows/clients on all screens to make it work like ...
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Building Awesome WM, missing dependencies
Trying to compile Awesome Window Manager on 11.04, I've done apt-get build-dep awesome but still get errors about missing dependencies:
$ make
Running cmake…
-- cat -> /bin/cat
-- ln -> /bin/ln
-- ...
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How can I get unity-2d-launcher to integrate with Awesome WM?
I really like the unity launcher, but in Awesome it only displays on Tag 1, and sometimes pops up behind other windows. Has anyone figured out a way to get this to work?
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How to install Awesome WM without root access?
I want to install the Awesome window manager.
In the environment where I want to configure it I don't have root access.
I do have a machine were I can be root (I use for this a virtual machine in my ...
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Setting http proxy in Awesome WM
I have installed awesome on top of Ubuntu 10.04 and switch between Gnome and Awesome sessions (partly because I am still learning awesome and partly because I use a few apps that require Gnome desktop)...
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When I run Nautilus or Guake from awesome wm the wallpaper is reverted to my Unity background
I'm using awesome wm on a ubuntu 12.04. It works fine except that whenever I run guake or nautilus should the background being reverted back to what's my background on unity.
on using nautilus, ...
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Awesome WM menu missing Firefox
After sudo apt-get install awesome awesome-extra and logging into it (with no previous configuration that I know of), there's no menu entry for Firefox. All my other stuff is there - Mutt, Meld, jEdit,...
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autostart app with tag in awm
while giving awm a try i encounter some problems. i want to autostart some apps when awm is started with specific tags. here's the relevant config i use for that.
first my tags with layouts:
tags = {...
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Switching Window Manager without Logging-out
I run both XFCE's xfwm and awesome. I'm usually in awesome but I occasionally have to run some applications that don't play nicely at all with tiling window managers.
I'm looking for a way to switch ...
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How can I get the message menu and other Unity notification area widgets into my Awesome WM panel?
I've just started using Awesome WM, but I miss a lot of stuff from the Unity panel: the logout buttons, the message menu, etc. Is there a way to get these into the Awesome WM panel?
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Unable to use my 4k monitor at maximum resolution when used with one or two others FHD monitors
I would like to use my 40" 4k monitor (Philips BDM4065UC) alongside with two others WUXGA monitors (Dell U2412M).
I can successfully run :
my main 4k alone at 3840x2160@60Hz,
or my main 4k at ...
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How to install and use AwesomeWM alongside Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install and use Awesome WM?
How to install and use AwesomeWM in Ubuntu 12.04?
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Is it possible to rebind Ctrl+Alt to the Meta key?
I'm using the awesome window manager, and it's, well, awesome.
However, I have a slight issue - I'm using an IBM Model M keyboard, which lacks the Meta key.
This is kind of a problem, as awesome ...
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unity-control-center icons missing when using xsession desktop with awesome window manager
I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 on amd64. I'm using xsession ("User Defined Session") as my desktop, so that everything is started from my ~/.xsession script. This script starts the awesome window manager ...
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Transparency for gnome-terminal not working in awesome wm
I am new to awesome wm, when I change the transparency of the terminal from the preferences it turns black instead of becoming transparent I have no idea how to fix it. Not sure what code I should ...
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How do I change rate of the keys repeat rate through console?
So I need to make a repeat rate of the keys, pressed on my keyboard about 30 ms. How do I do it through the shell command, to write it down in my startup scripts on Awesome WM that I use instead of ...
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Autostart in .xinitrc
I want to run some program at awesomewm startup. I have in my .xinitrc this line:
exec awesome
It works. Then I added this:
exec guake
I got errors. So I did this:
guake
I put each of these ...
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Awesome-WM inside gnome-shell -> Get rid of top panels
I am using awesome-wm now, and was trying to get it working with gnome-shell. I have basically followed those steps:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome#Ubuntu_11....
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Awesome starts programms twice
I'm running Ubuntu on a MacBook and use an external monitor. So I use xrandr to turn off the laptop monitor on startup if the external monitor is connected with this small ruby script:
#!/usr/bin/...
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How to create a graphical application shortcut in awesome WM?
How do I create a graphical shortcut to run a program in awesome WM? An icon I can click to launch a program?
Right now, I can only run Firefox by either:
launching a terminal, then typing "firefox &...
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Are there any ways to install Awesome 3.5.1 on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm doing to migrate from DE to WM, and like Awesome.
But at home I use Ubuntu 13.04 and can install the newest Awesome. At work I use Ubuntu 12.04 and it is older then Awesome, so how can I install ...
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Logging in over and over again. How to fix this? [closed]
Ok, I messed up. I installed ubuntu 11.10, installed awesome wm and removed unity, to have something to fall back on, I also installed gnome-session-fallback.
I was messing around and did the ...
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default application to open text file in Thunar under Awesome WM
I'm on Xubuntu 12.04 and using Awesome WM. In Awesome session, If I double click a plain text file(txt, asc, rb, py etc.) in Thunar, it opens with Abi Word. But I want it to open with a text editor ...
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How can I xprop or xwininfo Gnome-Do?
I need to see the X properties of the Gnome-Do popup window, in regard to this question that I asked earlier. The problem is that as soon as the Gnome-Do window loses focus it closes, so I can't ...