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Lightweight tiling window manager combining tiling and floating. Highly extensible through the Lua programming language.

Awesome is a lightweight tiling window manager, originally forked from dwm, but focusing on user-customizability through external configuration files. In later versions, the Lua programming language is used to configure and extend Awesome.

Awesome is compatible with a variety of freedesktop.org standards (such as the system tray) and has several widget libraries. Only the keyboard is needed to control Awesome, but mouse support is integrated throughout.

Awesome combines floating and tiling, making it a popular choice for users seeking to transition from floating to tiling window managers. A floating layout is available and users can choose to float windows, dynamically and through configuration.

The Ubuntu package for Awesome will install a session in lightdm and has a user-friendly default configuration which can quickly be made usable through the use of XFCE or Gnome packages (like xfce4-power-manager and nm-applet).

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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 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 + awesome WM. Ideas on how can I accomplish 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 can I make the mod+R box smart? Example: If I press…
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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.lua. I tried starting from scratch and copying…
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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 &", pressing Super+R and typing firefox, editing…
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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 post here to help with the debugging, let me know if…
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Default text is black-on-black for awesome window manager

When running gthumb under the awesome window manager the default text is black-on-black. As you can see from the attached image I can see the the highlighted text but I can't see any other text in the menu. The default text for the terminal is…
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How to make a textbox update brightness level?

I'm using Awesome window manager and have a textbox widget that I want to update with the current brightness level on an arbitrary interval of my choosing. Is there anyway to do this with Awesome and if so, how?
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Awesome window manager on startup

I've installed Awesome window manager on Ubuntu 12-04 I have followed these instructions to set it up. It works correctly. I am now trying to add some shell commands to be run at startup. [swapping mouse buttons round & stopping the display turning…
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How to install and configure awesome wm on ubuntu server 16.04

I have a brand new install of ubuntu server 16.04. I'd like to use awesome wm. Do I need to also install X and lightdm or will it pull them in automatically? Thanks for your help and/or suggestions.
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Awesome WM can't seem to be able to find some programs in the right-click menu

Basically I can't find Skype or Spotify in the right click menu, where I can find all other applications I've installed. I am looking for some way to be able to start them (even if it is through a search). Note: I know I can start them from the…
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How do you lock your screen from AwesomeWM in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I can't figure out how to lock my screen from AwesomeWM in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. How is this done? I tried running slock as suggested in the other question suggested below and I have to restart my computer to get back in after locking it.
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Awesome WM eof expected near end

I'm trying to add the network usage widget shown in the Awesome wiki but I'm running into an error. Here is the code: -- Create the wibox mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s }) -- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters …
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How can I get Awesome WM to display GNOME wallpapers on tags 2-9?

For some reason, the Awesome WM has stopped displaying backgrounds (wallpapers) on workspaces (tags) 2-9. It didn't used to do this, but has started doing this for some reason on the default configuration, using the stock config file.
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No application menus in awesome

Yesterday I installed awesome via an excellent YouTube video. Today, I'm trying to be productive; Unfortunately, I can't find the menus to my applications: thunderbird, chromium-browser, etc. How do I get these to appear? Thanks
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