[awesome] New to the tiling world

Question

Hey everybody,
After the surprises and joys of the basic Archlinux install, I first installed KDE4 as DE, because I was quite used to use it.
The I saw that KDE wasn't enough light to change my PC in a formula 1 car, so I searched. After that I installed Openbox, which has a great community here.
But that was a quite common wm.
Then I switched to awesome, and I'm here to fix some problems : when I start an awesome session, I only see my wallpaper, no right menu or bar on top as expected.
Here is my rc.lua :
-- Standard awesome library
require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")
require("awful.rules")
-- Theme handling library
require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
require("naughty")
--require("vicious")
-- Load Debian menu entries
--require("debian.menu")
-- Custom libraries
require("revelation")
require("shifty")
require("vicious")
require("teardrop")
--if true then return end
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init("/home/alex/.config/awesome/theme/fiesta/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "xterm"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "editor"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
modkey2 = "Mod3"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
awful.layout.suit.spiral,
awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
awful.layout.suit.max,
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
awful.layout.suit.magnifier,
awful.layout.suit.floating
-- {{{ Tags
shifty.config.tags = {
["xterm"] = { position = 1, init = true, },
["www"] = { position = 2, spawn = browser,},
["inkscape"] = { position = 3, exclusive = true, nopopup = true, spawn = inkscape, },
["irc"] = { position = 4, nopopup = true, spawn = "xterm -T weechat -e weechat-curses" },
["sys"] = { position = 5, exclusive = true, nopopup = true, },
["msg"] = { position = 7, exclusive = true, nopopup = true, },
["view"] = { position = 8, exclusive = true, nopopup = true, },
["mail"] = { position = 10, exclusive = true, nopopup = true, spawn = claws-mail },
["med"] = { position = 11, nopopup = true, },
["[mplayer]"] = { position = 11, nopopup = true, spawn = "xterm -T mplay"},
["dl"] = { position = 12, nopopup = true, spawn = "Transmission"},
shifty.taglist = mytaglist
-- Clients rules
shifty.config.apps = {
{ match = {"Transmission" }, tag = "dl" },
{ match = {"^Download$", "Preferences", "VideoDownloadHelper","Downloads", "Firefox Preferences", }, float = true, intrusive = true },
{ match = {"Firefox","Iceweasel","Vimperator","Shiretoko"} , tag = "www", opacity = 1.0 } ,
{ match = {"WeeChat 0.2.6","weechat-curses","weechat" }, tag = "irc" , },
{ match = {"Inkscape" }, tag = "inkscape", float = true , opacity = 1.0 },
{ match = {"MPlayer","QuodLibet" }, float = true, opacity = 1.0 },
{ match = {"claws-mail" }, tag = "mail", float = true, opacity = 1.0},
{ match = {"med" }, tag = "med" },
{ match = {"ncmpcpp","ncmpc++ ver.0.3.4","med" }, tag = "med", },
{ match = {"Pidgin" }, tag = "msg", },
{ match = {"htop" }, tag = "sys", },
{ match = {"Texmaker" }, tag = "texmaker", float = true, opacity = 1.0 },
{ match = {"lxappearence","Caml graphics" }, float = true, opacity = 1.0 },
{ match = {"gpicview","Epdfview" }, float = true, tag = "view", },
{ match = { "" },
buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize),
awful.button({ modkey }, 8, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Options par défaut.
shifty.config.defaults = {
layout = awful.layout.suit.tile,
ncol = 1,
mwfact = 0.50,
floatBars=false,
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/rc.lua" },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
-- { "Debian", debian.menu.Debian_menu.Debian },
{ "open terminal", terminal }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = image(beautiful.awesome_icon),
menu = mymainmenu })
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock({ align = "right" })
-- Create a systray
mysystray = widget({ type = "systray" })
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ width=250 })
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end))
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt({ layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright })
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.label.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(function(c)
return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s)
end, mytasklist.buttons)
--- {{ Section des Widgets
-- Date
datewidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, "%b %d, %R", 60)
-- Mem Widget
memwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem, " $2MB/$3MB", 13)
-- CPU Widget
-- Initialize widget
cpuwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
-- Register widget
vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, "$1%")
-- Widget MPD
--mpdwidget = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "mpdwidget" })
--vicious.register(mpdwidget, vicious.widgets.mpd, " $1", 5, { 30, "mpd" })
-- Net Widget
netwidget = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "netwidget" })
vicious.register(netwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '${wlan0 down_kb} kbps / ${wlan0 up_kb} kbps', 3)
-- FS Widget
fswidget = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "fswidget" })
vicious.register(fswidget, vicious.widgets.fs,
' ${/home used_gb}<span color="'.. beautiful.fg_widget ..'"> /</span> ${/home size_gb} ', 120)
tempwidget = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "tempwidget" })
vicious.register(tempwidget, vicious.widgets.thermal, "$1°C", 20, "thermal_zone2")
-- Icones
mycpuicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "mycpuicon" })
mycpuicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_cpu)
myneticon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "myneticon" })
myneticonup = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "myneticonup" })
myneticonup.image = image(beautiful.widget_netup)
myneticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_net)
myvolicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "myvolicon" })
myvolicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_vol)
mymusicicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "mymusicicon"})
mymusicicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_music)
myspacer = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "myspacer" })
myseparator = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "myseparator" })
myspacer.text = " "
myseparator.text = "|"
mydiskicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "mydiskicon" })
mytimeicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "mytimeicon" })
mytimeicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_date)
mydiskicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_fs)
mymemicon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "mymemicon" })
mymemicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_mem)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
mywibox[s].widgets = {
mylauncher,
mytaglist[s],
mypromptbox[s],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
mylayoutbox[s],
myspacer,
datewidget, mytimeicon,
s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
myspacer,
mpdwidget, mymusicicon,
myspacer,
fswidget, mydiskicon,
myspacer,
myneticonup, netwidget, myneticon,
myspacer,
cpuwidget,
mycpuicon,
myspacer,
memwidget,
mymemicon,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
-- awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show(true) end),
-- Layout manipulationi
-- awful
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab", function () awful.client.focus.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Shifty
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "t", shifty.add),
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", shifty.rename),
awful.key({ modkey }, "w", shifty.del),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Left", shifty.shift_prev ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Right", shifty.shift_next ),
-- awful.key({ modkey }, "Escape", function() awful.tag.history.restore() end), -- move to prev tag by history
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "n", shifty.send_prev), -- move client to prev tag
awful.key({ modkey }, "n", shifty.send_next),
-- shifty.config.clientkeys = clientkeys
-- Standard program
-- awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey },"x", function () teardrop("urxvtc", "top") end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "Down", revelation.revelation),
-- Keybindings Perso
awful.key({ modkey2}, "Left", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -q sset Front 2dB-") end),
awful.key({ modkey2}, "Right", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -q sset Front 2dB+") end),
awful.key({ modkey}, "v", function () awful.util.spawn("apps") end),
--}) end),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "BackSpace", function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end)
-- Customs prompts
awful.key({ modkey }, "g", function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Xterm" }, promptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
function (name)
exec("xterm -T "..name.."")
end)
end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "s", function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "s", function (c) c.sticky = not c.sticky end ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "c", function (c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
-- awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "r", function (c) c:redraw() end),
-- awful.key({ modkey, }, "n", function (c) c.minimized = not c.minimized end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end)
-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
--keynumber = 0
--for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber));
--end
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
shifty.config.globalkeys = globalkeys
shifty.config.clientkeys = clientkeys
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.add_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Add a titlebar
-- awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:add_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
end)
shifty.init()
client.add_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.add_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
client.add_signal("focus", function(c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
if c.opacity < 1.0 then
c.opacity = beautiful.opacity_focus
end
end)
client.add_signal("unfocus", function(c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
if c.opacity < 1.0 then
c.opacity = beautiful.opacity_normal
end
end)
I did this from the only tutorial I saw.
It would be nice if you help me fixing the bugs and errors.
Last edited by aleks223 (2010-03-27 13:44:56)

Answer 1

You are using way to many third party libraries at once for us to be able and point the finger at the problem. Which might not even be there, but turns out your personal theme is broken.
Idea: start simple and clean with a default rc.lua, then add one thing at a time, not 10 libraries from some tutorial
Link: all the information you will ever need indexed at one place http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page
Last edited by anrxc (2010-03-27 14:54:03)