Questions tagged [awesome]
Lightweight tiling window manager combining tiling and floating. Highly extensible through the Lua programming language.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Invalid random wallpaper directory in awsetbg
I'm using the awesome wm and awsetbg to draw the background. Suddenly, for a mysterious reason, it doesn't work (awsetbg /some/file.jpg), and when I try to get it to use a random directory (awsetbg -r ...
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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 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 do i set a solid color desktop in Awesome3?
I'm using version 3.4.9 (smack)
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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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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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Building Awesome WM
I am following these steps in order to build Awesome window manager on 10.04
I am building 3.4 while the tutorial is for 3.1
I installed all of the specified dependencies including cairo.
After ...
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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)...