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Awesome WM is an open source, minimalist, tiling window manager for X.org.

Per the homepage:

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.

For more information, look at the awesome(1) manpage, as well as the awesome wiki.

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What Tiling Window Manager for Windows do you recommend?

What is the best tiling window manager for Windows? I'm looking for something like awesome. It would be nice if it removes the title bar and has "comfortable" shortcut keys (for me that's vi keys, but feel free to use your own reference). Open…
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How do I use the awesome window manager?

I've installed awesome on my Ubuntu laptop, and I like it. But I feel kind of lost. I don't know any keyboard shortcuts and the man pages aren't really any help (for instance, what does Mod4 mean?). Is there any kind of brief introduction to…
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Awesome-wm a signal to rise client when focus received

I've got my Emacs running on a tag worker with server-start launched. I have a file manager opened somewhere else (another monitor for example) and when I open a text file with emacsclient it successfully opens in emacs but doesn't switch to it and…
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enabling sticky keys under xorg (awesome desktop manager)

I would like to enable "sticky modifier keys" under archlinux + awesome, and I haven't found the correct info.
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How can I execute commands on startup in awesome?

I want to execute some commands after login if awesome-windowmanager starts. How can I add startup-commands to the awesome-config?
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Changing the Mod key in Awesome WM

I tried to change the mod key in awesome from the windows key to either Pause, Scroll Lock, and Escape. For all keys I tried to change the entry in the rc.lua configuration file; I tried to use xmodmap to clear locks and add mod4 = ... However it…
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netbeans (java) shows empty window in tiling window manager (awesome wm)

I use the "awesome" (tiling) window manager (with default config) and want to run netbeans (java app). But the window is completely grey. The installer window was it too, so i installed under KDE. I guess it has to do how java talks to the deskop or…
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Rename the current tag in Awesome WM

Is it possible to change a tag's name without restarting awesome? At the very least, something I can run that will change the name and also reload awesome.
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Using XFCE4 with awesome

When I got tired of using the standard XFCE window manager, xfwm, I simply installed openbox and selected "XFCE/Openbox" session in the GDM login screen. This was very convenient because I didn't want the plain Openbox session in which there are no…
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How to take screenshot(using selection) in awesome wm via scrot

Tried: awful.util.spawn("scrot -s") awful.util.spawn("urxvt -e \"scrot -s\"") os.execute("scrot -s") and all possible combinations even with sleep. Also tried daemonize. Nothing works =( P.S. All commands are in key bindings, if I replace scrot -s…
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Awesome-WM restrict client size

Is it possible in Awesome-WM to restrict a client window, namely my IM contact list, to a specific size?
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Cannot get firefox to tile correctly after last update to Awesome WM in Arch

With all other programs I've tried mod4 + m will toggle between tiling and maximizing window. This doesn't happen with firefox. Here are the two states that the tags go between when pushing mod4 + m. I normally associate the plus sign w/ the tile…
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How do I access a window on another screen using Awesome?

I have two monitors. How can I focus on a window that is on a different screen than the one I'm working on? Mod+j/h works only for one monitor.
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AwesomeWM - How to change statusbar font colors and font itself

My current awesome WM theme has some ugly colors that I want to change and I want to change the font from what I believe is Terminus to Monospace. This is all for the status bar at the top btw. -- Menubar configuration menubar.utils.terminal =…
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Awesome WM: execute my aliases via run prompt?

I have aliases in my bashrc for a few programs. One example is: alias chrome='google-chrome --disk-cache-size=1000000000' How can I call this alias from the run prompt (modkey+r)? Im running linux mint
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