awesome window manager

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2008-08-18

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最近在玩 awesome 這個 tiling window manager，玩得不亦樂乎，於是整理了筆記，分享給大家。

見附件。

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2008-08-18

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awesome 是現在極少數支援 pango 卻不依賴 GTK+ 的精簡程式。

（目前 99% 以上使用 pango 的程式都依賴 GTK+）

awesome 使用 pango + cairo，可正確顯示多國語言，確實是很不錯的 window manager。

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2008-08-19

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在選 awesome 之前，原本很想用 xmonad ，但後來發現 xmonad 有一堆 Haskell 的 dependency 要裝，就放棄了。

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2008-08-23

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這個好用！

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2008-09-20

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awesome 3.0 正式釋出了！

http://awesome.naquadah.org/download/

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2008-09-24

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Joey Hess 是 Debian 的大神之一，他是典型的 KISS 支持者 (Keep It Simple, Stupid)。

他的許多觀點都很有意思，底下是他對 awesome 3.x 的不滿：

原文：http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/awesomely_frustrated/

Just spent a good two^Wthree hours trying to configure awesome 3.0 to match my awesome 2.x setup. Docs are effectively nonexistant. So far, I'm stuck on several fronts:

I want to be able to left click on a titlebar and drag to resize. Without pressing the modkey. But the definition for that is set deep within awful.lua, which is not a configuration file, and so I cannot see a good way to configure it.
Why can't I resize an xterm to 80 characters wide? It jumps between 79 and 81.
Why is it that despite using the same font as with 2.0, enough additional vertical space is used by the title bar and status bar, that I get one less line in all my xterms? It's using only a few pixels more than before, but that's too much..
How do I configure a textbox so that, if I click on it, a command is run? Update: Figured this one out, for example: mympd:mouse_add(mouse({ }, 1, function () os.execute("awesome-mpd show &") end)) (Note that if the command isn't run in the background, and opens a window, it will deadlock awesome.)
Can't figure out how to use awesome-client to add a value to a graph widget. (I'm sure this is simple, but I haven't stumbled over an example. I'd use wicked, but it's not packaged.) Update: Figured it out via the source: mpgraph:plot_data_add("foo", "10")
Can't figure out how to make a textbox widget have a fixed width and truncate the text in it. Since it's displaying the currently plaging song, using the default dynamic width would make everything on my status bar jump around. Update: mytextbox.width=100
There's no emptybox widget aymmore, so how do I add horizontal padding between widgets? Best I've managed so far is an empty textbox with a defined width.

Anyone else hate lua, or at least build-your-own-WM-in-lua config files for window managers that used to have simple config files?

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2008-09-24

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Anyone else hate lua, or at least build-your-own-WM-in-lua config files for window managers that used to have simple config files?

大概是因為一堆 game 都用 lua 的關係？帶動了一堆爐鴨熱。

爐鴨是沒什麼好或不好，但也不要弄得到處都是，設定檔我個人就覺得很沒必要。

我看 KISS 要有新解才行：Keep It Stupid Smart. 把簡單的事情給弄複雜了！XD

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2008-09-26

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awesome 3 還沒進 Debian 的 testing，剉咧等 …… XD

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2009-03-15

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最近 Debian Squeeze 升級到 awesome 3 了

好加在我多半用預設設定，需要改的地方不多

dmenu 的設定網路上可找得到：

Arch Linux Forums / awesome 3 queries

dmenu = "dmenu_run -fn 'CodingFontTobi-10' -nb '#333333' -nf '#ffffff' -sb '#1793d1' -sf '#ffffff'"
keybinding({ modkey }, "p", function () awful.util.spawn(dmenu) end):add()

我的設定

key({ modkey }, "F2",
function()
awful.util.spawn("dmenu_run -i -b -nb '#303030' -nf '#CCCCCC' -sb '#97B26B' -sf '#000000'")
end),

dmenu 實在超好用的，那是 dwm-tools 提供的工具，即使你用的不是 dwm、awesome window manager，也可以用。

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2009-03-18

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把心得根據 awesome 3.2rc4 的 manpage 修改好了，請看此篇的附件。

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2009-03-27

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以前用 Win + b 可以隱藏 statusbar，現在要在 rc.lua 自已設定才行

-- press "Mod4 + b" to hide the statusbar

key({ modkey }, "b", function ()
      if mywibox[mouse.screen].screen == nil then
         mywibox[mouse.screen].screen = mouse.screen
     else
         mywibox[mouse.screen].screen = nil
     end
end):add()

離開電腦時，如想按某些鍵直接鎖住螢幕，可以這麼設定

-- press "Mod4 + F12" to lock the screen

key({ modkey }, "F12",

function ()
awful.util.spawn('xscreensaver-command -lock')
end):add()

這邊用的是 xscreensaver，xscreensaver 是 client/server 的架構，所以要先在 .xinitrc 內執行 xscreensaver &，這邊按 Win + F12 才用作用。

參考資訊：

Awesome3
FAQ

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2011-12-26

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最近學會 gcb 的用法，gcb 與 gcin 的設定畫面在 awesome window manager 會被自動放到最大，很難用，可以透過下列設定解決：

編輯 ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua，在 awful.rules.rules = { …… } 這個區塊內加入以下

{ rule = { instance = "gcin-tools" },
 properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { instance = "gcin" },
 properties = { floating = true } },

gcb 的位置可以在「gcin 設定/工具」中的「內定輸入法 & 開啟/關閉」調整

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2012-02-26

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最近在玩佈景主題，awesome 佈景主題在官方的 wiki 有詳細說明

awesome 對佈景主題的支援是透過一個名為 beautiful 的 lua library，是為 awesome 3 以上的版本寫的。

預設狀態下，awesome 切換佈景主題的方式有點簡陋，必需修改 rc.lua 中的設定：

-- 載入 theme 的程式庫
require("beautiful")
-- 設定使用的 theme
beautiful.init("path_to_theme_file")
-- beautiful.init 實例：可使用內建程式庫來抓設定資料夾的位置，也可簡單直接指定
beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/default/theme.lua")
beautiful.init("/home/USER/.config/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")

debian 的 awesome package (v3.4.11-2) 本身附帶有幾個佈景主題：default、sky 與 zenburn，放在 /usr/share/awesome/themes 中，可將 /usr/share/awesome/themes 複製到 ~/.config/awesome/ 方便自己修改亂搞

$ cp -R /usr/share/awesome/themes ~/.config/awesome/

上面紅字的部分就是佈景主題資料夾的名稱

可能有人不滿足於這樣陽春的設定方式，所以官方的 wiki 提供了進階一點的設定，讓我們可以用 awesome 的 menu 來切換佈景主題：

修改 rc.lua 的設定

-- 載入 ~/.config/awesome/current_theme/theme.lua

beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/current_theme/theme.lua")

-- 選單函式的設定

mythememenu = {} 
function theme_load(theme) 
 local cfg_path = awful.util.getdir("config") 
 
 -- Create a symlink from the given theme to /home/user/.config/awesome/current_theme
 -- (在 /home/USER/.config/awesome/ 建立 symlink current_theme 指向
 -- /home/USER/.config/awesome/themes/THEME_NAME)
 awful.util.spawn("ln -sfn " .. cfg_path .. "/themes/" .. theme .. " " .. cfg_path .. "/current_theme") 
 awesome.restart()
end 
function theme_menu() 
 -- List your theme files and feed the menu table (列出可用的佈景主題並餵給 menu table) 
 local cmd = "ls -1 " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/" 
 local f = io.popen(cmd) 
 for l in f:lines() do 
 local item = { l, function () theme_load(l) end } 
 table.insert(mythememenu, item) 
 end
 f:close() 
end

-- Generate your table at startup or restart (啟動或重啟 awesome 時，產生 theme table) 
theme_menu()

-- Modify your awesome menu to add your theme sub-menu (在主選單中加入切換 theme 的項目)
myawesomemenu = { 
 { "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
 { "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/rc.lua" },
 { "themes", mythememenu },
 { "restart", awesome.restart },
 { "quit", awesome.quit } 
}

接下來，必需先手動建立一個 symlink

ln -sfn /home/USER/.config/awesome/themes/THEME_NAME /home/USER/.config/awesome/current_theme

藍字部分請自行代換。

重新啟動 awesome 後應該可以看到選單內多了 themes 選項了，可以藉選單來切換 themes！

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