Awesome not reading rc.lua

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I'm trying to give awesome3.1 a go, but it isn't reading my rc.lua. It just keeps the default everything. Really all I've changed is the theme.
-- Include awesome libraries, with lots of useful function!
require("awful")
require("beautiful")
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
theme_path = "/home/shawn/.config/awesome/theme"
-- Actually load theme
beautiful.init(theme_path)
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "xterm"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vi"
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"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
"tile",
"tileleft",
"tilebottom",
"tiletop",
"fairh",
"fairv",
"magnifier",
"max",
"fullscreen",
"spiral",
"dwindle",
"floating"
-- Table of clients that should be set floating. The index may be either
-- the application class or instance. The instance is useful when running
-- a console app in a terminal like (Music on Console)
-- xterm -name mocp -e mocp
floatapps =
-- by class
["MPlayer"] = true,
["pinentry"] = true,
["gimp"] = true,
-- by instance
["mocp"] = true
-- Applications to be moved to a pre-defined tag by class or instance.
-- Use the screen and tags indices.
apptags =
-- ["Firefox"] = { screen = 1, tag = 2 },
-- ["mocp"] = { screen = 2, tag = 4 },
-- Define if we want to use titlebar on all applications.
use_titlebar = false
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define tags table.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = {}
-- Create 9 tags per screen.
for tagnumber = 1, 3 do
tags[s][tagnumber] = tag({ name = tag_settings[tagnumber].name, layout = tag_settings[tagnumber].layouts })
-- Add tags to screen one by one
tags[s][tagnumber].screen = s
end
-- I'm sure you want to see at least one tag.
tags[s][1].selected = true
end
tag_settings = {
{ name="main", layout=layouts[1] },
{ name="work", layout=layouts[1] },
{ name="float", layout=layouts[12] }
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textbox widget
mytextbox = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "right" })
-- Set the default text in textbox
mytextbox.text = "<b><small> " .. AWESOME_RELEASE .. " </small></b>"
-- 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.new({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
{ "open terminal", terminal }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon,
menu = mymainmenu })
-- Create a systray
mysystray = widget({ type = "systray", align = "right" })
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = { button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
button({ }, 3, function (tag) tag.selected = not tag.selected end),
button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev) }
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = { button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
button({ }, 3, function () awful.menu.clients({ width=250 }) end),
button({ }, 4, function () awful.client.focus.byidx(1) end),
button({ }, 5, function () awful.client.focus.byidx(-1) end) }
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "left" })
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = widget({ type = "imagebox", align = "right" })
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons({ button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end) })
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist.new(s, awful.widget.taglist.label.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist.new(function(c)
return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s)
end, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = wibox({ position = "top", fg = beautiful.fg_normal, bg = beautiful.bg_normal })
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
mywibox[s].widgets = { mylauncher,
mytaglist[s],
mytasklist[s],
mypromptbox[s],
mytextbox,
mylayoutbox[s],
s == 1 and mysystray or nil }
mywibox[s].screen = s
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
awesome.buttons({
button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
-- Bind keyboard digits
-- 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
for i = 1, keynumber do
keybinding({ modkey }, i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
tags[screen][i].selected = not tags[screen][i].selected
end
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, i,
function ()
if client.focus then
if tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, i,
function ()
if client.focus then
if tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end
end):add()
end
keybinding({ modkey }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore):add()
-- Standard program
keybinding({ modkey }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", function ()
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].text =
awful.util.escape(awful.util.restart())
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit):add()
-- Client manipulation
keybinding({ modkey }, "m", awful.client.maximize):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "f", function () if client.focus then client.focus.fullscreen = not client.focus.fullscreen end end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "c", function () if client.focus then client.focus:kill() end end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "j", function () awful.client.focus.byidx(1); if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "k", function () awful.client.focus.byidx(-1); if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx(1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx(-1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus(1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus(-1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.togglefloating):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function () if client.focus then client.focus:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "Tab", awful.client.focus.history.previous):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "r", function () if client.focus then client.focus:redraw() end end):add()
-- Layout manipulation
keybinding({ modkey }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(0.05) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol(1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end):add()
-- Prompt
keybinding({ modkey }, "F1", function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run: " }, mypromptbox[mouse.screen], awful.util.spawn, awful.completion.bash,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history")
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey }, "F4", function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " }, mypromptbox[mouse.screen], awful.util.eval, awful.prompt.bash,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end):add()
keybinding({ modkey, "Ctrl" }, "i", function ()
local s = mouse.screen
if mypromptbox[s].text then
mypromptbox[s].text = nil
elseif client.focus then
mypromptbox[s].text = nil
if client.focus.class then
mypromptbox[s].text = "Class: " .. client.focus.class .. " "
end
if client.focus.instance then
mypromptbox[s].text = mypromptbox[s].text .. "Instance: ".. client.focus.instance .. " "
end
if client.focus.role then
mypromptbox[s].text = mypromptbox[s].text .. "Role: ".. client.focus.role
end
end
end):add()
-- Client awful tagging: this is useful to tag some clients and then do stuff like move to tag on them
keybinding({ modkey }, "t", awful.client.togglemarked):add()
for i = 1, keynumber do
keybinding({ modkey, "Shift" }, "F" .. i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
for k, c in pairs(awful.client.getmarked()) do
awful.client.movetotag(tags[screen][i], c)
end
end
end):add()
end
-- {{{ Hooks
-- Hook function to execute when focusing a client.
awful.hooks.focus.register(function (c)
if not awful.client.ismarked(c) then
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
end
end)
-- Hook function to execute when unfocusing a client.
awful.hooks.unfocus.register(function (c)
if not awful.client.ismarked(c) then
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
end
end)
-- Hook function to execute when marking a client
awful.hooks.marked.register(function (c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_marked
end)
-- Hook function to execute when unmarking a client.
awful.hooks.unmarked.register(function (c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
end)
-- Hook function to execute when the mouse enters a client.
awful.hooks.mouse_enter.register(function (c)
-- Sloppy focus, but disabled for magnifier layout
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= "magnifier"
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
-- Hook function to execute when a new client appears.
awful.hooks.manage.register(function (c)
if use_titlebar then
-- Add a titlebar
awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
end
-- Add mouse bindings
c:buttons({
button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
button({ modkey }, 1, function (c) c:mouse_move() end),
button({ modkey }, 3, function (c) c:mouse_resize() end)
-- New client may not receive focus
-- if they're not focusable, so set border anyway.
c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
-- Check if the application should be floating.
local cls = c.class
local inst = c.instance
if floatapps[cls] then
c.floating = floatapps[cls]
elseif floatapps[inst] then
c.floating = floatapps[inst]
end
-- Check application->screen/tag mappings.
local target
if apptags[cls] then
target = apptags[cls]
elseif apptags[inst] then
target = apptags[inst]
end
if target then
c.screen = target.screen
awful.client.movetotag(tags[target.screen][target.tag], c)
end
-- Do this after tag mapping, so you don't see it on the wrong tag for a split second.
client.focus = c
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Honor size hints: if you want to drop the gaps between windows, set this to false.
-- c.honorsizehints = false
end)
-- Hook function to execute when arranging the screen.
-- (tag switch, new client, etc)
awful.hooks.arrange.register(function (screen)
local layout = awful.layout.get(screen)
if layout then
mylayoutbox[screen].image = image(beautiful["layout_" .. layout])
else
mylayoutbox[screen].image = nil
end
-- Give focus to the latest client in history if no window has focus
-- or if the current window is a desktop or a dock one.
if not client.focus then
local c = awful.client.focus.history.get(screen, 0)
if c then client.focus = c end
end
-- Uncomment if you want mouse warping
if client.focus then
local c_c = client.focus:fullgeometry()
local m_c = mouse.coords()
if m_c.x < c_c.x or m_c.x >= c_c.x + c_c.width or
m_c.y < c_c.y or m_c.y >= c_c.y + c_c.height then
if table.maxn(m_c.buttons) == 0 then
mouse.coords({ x = c_c.x + 5, y = c_c.y + 5})
end
end
end
end)
-- Hook called every second
awful.hooks.timer.register(1, function ()
-- For unix time_t lovers
mytextbox.text = " " .. os.time() .. " time_t "
-- Otherwise use:
-- mytextbox.text = " " .. os.date() .. " "
end)
Then if I try this one, I just get a black screen, I have all the required things:
-- Version 2
-- This config is for use with awesome 3.0 stable.
-- If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free
-- to pass me a message, find me in #awesome on OFTC, or
-- email me at <lucas[at]glacicle.com>
-- I use both wicked and eminent, so to use it,
-- you'll need to get both those helper libraries too.
-- Note that I use all-custom keybindings, so you might
-- want to copy the default rc.lua's keybindings
-- into here if you wish to use those, although you might
-- find you like mine better :P
---- {{{ Require lua libraries
-- Shipped with awesome
require("awful")
require("beautiful")
-- External
require("wicked") -- Widgets
require("eminent") -- Dynamic tagging
---- {{{ 'Beautiful' theme settings
-- Font
beautiful.font = "Dina 8"
-- Background
beautiful.bg_normal = '#414141'
beautiful.bg_focus = '#414141'
beautiful.bg_sbfocus = '#414141'
beautiful.bg_urgent = '#414141'
-- Foreground
beautiful.fg_normal = '#999999'
beautiful.fg_focus = '#335565'
beautiful.fg_urgent = '#A000000'
-- Border
beautiful.border_width = 2
beautiful.border_normal = '#414141'
beautiful.border_focus = '#335565'
beautiful.border_marked = '#91231c'
-- Wallpaper
-- wallpaper_cmd = awsetbg /storage/images/backgrounds/nature/looking.jpg
---- {{{ Modkeys
key = {}
key.none = {}
key.alt = {"Mod1"}
key.super = {"Mod4"}
key.shift = {"Shift"}
key.control = {"Control"}
key.super_alt = {key.super[1], key.alt[1]}
key.super_shift = {key.super[1], key.shift[1]}
key.super_control = {key.super[1], key.control[1]}
key.control_alt = {key.control[1], key.alt[1]}
key.shift_alt = {key.shift[1], key.alt[1]}
---- {{{ Settings
-- Initialise tables
settings = {}
settings.widget = {}
settings.apps = {}
settings.tag = {}
settings.bindings = {}
-- {{{ General
-- Widget spacer and separator
settings.widget_spacer = " "
settings.widget_separator = " "
-- Warp mouse
settings.warp_mouse = true
-- New become master
settings.new_become_master = false
-- Tag mwfact
settings.tag.mwfact = 0.618033988769
-- {{{ Applications
-- Terminal application
settings.apps.terminal = 'urxvt'
-- Command to lock the screen
settings.apps.lock_screen = 'xscreensaver-command -lock'
-- Command to turn screen off with DPMS
settings.apps.screen_off = 'sleep 1; xset dpms force off'
-- File manager application
settings.apps.filemanager = settings.apps.terminal..' -e zsh -c "vifm %s"'
-- {{{ Floating windows
settings.floating = {
["gimp"] = true,
["urxvtcnotify"] = true,
["MPlayer"] = true,
-- {{{ Other
-- Check what widget mode to use
settings.widget_mode = 'desktop'
-- Highlight statusbar of focussed screen on multiple-monitor setups
if screen.count() > 1 then
settings.statusbar_highlight_focus = {true, 1}
end
---- {{{ Keybindings
-- Initialise table
settings.bindings.wm = {}
settings.bindings.mouse = {}
-- {{{ Open the filemanager at specific locations
settings.bindings.filemanager = {
-- Alt+d: Data partition
["/storage"] = {key.alt, "#40"},
-- Alt+a: Home Directory
[os.getenv("HOME")] = {key.alt, "#38"},
-- {{{ Run specific commands
settings.bindings.commands = {
-- Alt+q: Open Terminal
[settings.apps.terminal] = {key.alt, "#24"},
-- Mod+k: GNU Screen
-- [settings.apps.gnu_screen] = {key.super, "#45"},
-- Mod+l: Lock screen
[settings.apps.lock_screen] = {key.super, "#46"},
-- Mod+o: Screen off with DPMS
[settings.apps.screen_off] = {key.super, "#32"},
-- {{{ Tag bindings
settings.bindings.wm.tag = {
-- Mod+a: Switch to previous tag
[function() eminent.tag.prev(mouse.screen) end] = {key.super, "#38"},
-- Mod+s: Switch to next tag
[function() eminent.tag.next(mouse.screen) end] = {key.super, "#39"},
-- Alt+\: Switch to float layout
[function() awful.layout.set('floating') end] = {key.alt, "#51"},
-- Alt+z: Switch to max layout
[function() awful.layout.set('max') end] = {key.alt, "#52"},
-- Alt+x: Switch to tile layout
[function() awful.layout.set('tile') end] = {key.alt, "#53"},
-- {{{ Prompt bindings
settings.bindings.prompt = {
-- Alt+w: Run prompt
[{awful.spawn, " Run: "}] = {key.alt, "#25"},
-- Mod+Alt+w: Lua eval prompt
[{awful.eval, " Run Lua: "}] = {key.super_alt, "#25"},
-- {{{ Miscellaneous bindings
settings.bindings.wm.misc = {
-- Mod+Alt+r: Restart awesome
[awesome.restart] = {key.super_alt, "#27"},
-- Mod+e: Switch focus to next screen
[function() awful.screen.focus(1) end] = {key.super, "#26"},
-- Mod+d: Switch focus to previous screen
[function() awful.screen.focus(-1) end] = {key.super, "#40"},
-- {{{ Keyboard digit bindings
settings.bindings.digits = {
-- Mod+##: View tag
[awful.tag.viewonly] = key.super,
-- Mod+Shift+##: Toggle tag view
[function(t) t.selected = not t.selected end] = key.super_shift,
-- Mod+Control+##: Move window to tag
[awful.client.movetotag] = key.super_control,
-- Mod+Alt+##: Toggle window on tag
[awful.client.toggletag] = key.super_alt,
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
settings.bindings.mouse.desktop = {
-- Right click on desktop: Open terminal
[function() awful.spawn(settings.apps.terminal) end] = {key.none, 3},
settings.bindings.mouse.client = {
-- Alt+Left: Move window
[function(c) c:mouse_move() end] = {key.alt, 1},
-- Alt+Right: Resize window
[function(c) c:mouse_resize({corner="bottomright"}) end] = {key.alt, 3},
---- {{{ Markup helper functions
-- Inline markup is a tad ugly, so use these functions
-- to dynamically create markup, we hook them into
-- the beautiful namespace for clarity.
beautiful.markup = {}
function beautiful.markup.bg(color, text)
return '<bg color="'..color..'" />'..text
end
function beautiful.markup.fg(color, text)
return '<span color="'..color..'">'..text..'</span>'
end
function beautiful.markup.font(font, text)
return '<span font_desc="'..font..'">'..text..'</span>'
end
function beautiful.markup.title(t)
return t
end
function beautiful.markup.title_normal(t)
return beautiful.title(t)
end
function beautiful.markup.title_focus(t)
return beautiful.markup.bg(beautiful.bg_focus, beautiful.markup.fg(beautiful.fg_focus, beautiful.markup.title(t)))
end
function beautiful.markup.title_urgent(t)
return beautiful.markup.bg(beautiful.bg_urgent, beautiful.markup.fg(beautiful.fg_urgent, beautiful.markup.title(t)))
end
function beautiful.markup.bold(text)
return '<b>'..text..'</b>'
end
function beautiful.markup.heading(text)
return beautiful.markup.fg(beautiful.fg_focus, beautiful.markup.bold(text))
end
---- {{{ Widgets
settings.statusbars = {}
settings.widgets = {}
settings.statusbars[1] = {{
position = "top",
height = 18,
fg = beautiful.fg_normal,
bg = beautiful.bg_normal,
name = "mainstatusbar",
}, "all"}
settings.promptbar = {
position = "top",
height = 18,
fg = beautiful.fg_normal,
bg = beautiful.bg_normal,
name = "promptbar",
-- {{{ Taglist
maintaglist = widget({
type = 'taglist',
name = 'maintaglist'
function maintaglist.label(t)
return awful.widget.taglist.label.noempty(t)
end
maintaglist:mouse_add(mouse(key.none, 1, function (o, t) awful.tag.viewonly(t) end))
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, maintaglist})
if settings.widget_mode ~= 'none' then
-- {{{ MPD Widget
mpdwidget = widget({
type = 'textbox',
name = 'mpdwidget',
align = 'right'
wicked.register(mpdwidget, wicked.widgets.mpd, function (widget, args)
-- I don't want the stream name on my statusbar, so I gsub it out,
-- feel free to remove this bit
return settings.widget_spacer..beautiful.markup.heading('MPD')..': '
..args[1]:gsub('AnimeNfo Radio | Serving you the best Anime music!: ','')
..settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator end)
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, mpdwidget})
-- {{{ GMail Widget
gmailwidget = widget({
type = 'textbox',
name = 'gmailwidget',
align = 'right'
gmailwidget:mouse_add(mouse(key.none, 1, function () wicked.update(gmailwidget) end))
function read_gmail_temp(format)
local f = io.open('/tmp/gmail-temp')
if f == nil then
return {'n/a'}
end
local n = f:read()
if n == nil or f == ' ' or f == '' then
f:close()
return {'n/a'}
end
return {n}
end
wicked.register(gmailwidget, read_gmail_temp, function (widget, args)
local n = args[1]
local out = settings.widget_spacer..beautiful.markup.heading('GMail')..': '
if n ~= "n/a" and tonumber(n) > 0 then
out = out..beautiful.markup.bg(beautiful.bg_urgent, beautiful.markup.fg(beautiful.fg_urgent, tostring(n)))
else
out = out..tostring(n)
end
out = out..settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator
return out
end, 120)
-- Start timer to fill the temp file
awful.hooks.timer.register(110, function ()
-- Call GMail check script to check for new email
os.execute(os.getenv("HOME")..'/other/.gmail.py > /tmp/gmail-temp &')
end, true)
wicked.update(gmailwidget)
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, gmailwidget})
-- {{{ Load Averages Widget
loadwidget = widget({
type = 'textbox',
name = 'loadwidget',
align = 'right'
function widget_loadavg(format)
-- Use /proc/loadavg to get the average system load on 1, 5 and 15 minute intervals
local f = io.open('/proc/loadavg')
local n = f:read()
f:close()
-- Find the third space
local pos = n:find(' ', n:find(' ', n:find(' ')+1)+1)
return {n:sub(1,pos-1)}
end
wicked.register(loadwidget, widget_loadavg,
settings.widget_spacer..beautiful.markup.heading('Load')..': $1'..settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator, 2)
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, loadwidget})
-- {{{ CPU Usage Widget
cputextwidget = widget({
type = 'textbox',
name = 'cputextwidget',
align = 'right'
wicked.register(cputextwidget, wicked.widgets.cpu,
settings.widget_spacer..beautiful.markup.heading('CPU')..': $1%'..settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator,
nil, nil, 2)
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, cputextwidget})
-- {{{ CPU Graph Widget
cpugraphwidget = widget({
type = 'graph',
name = 'cpugraphwidget',
align = 'right'
cpugraphwidget.height = 0.85
cpugraphwidget.width = 45
cpugraphwidget.bg = '#333333'
cpugraphwidget.border_color = '#0a0a0a'
cpugraphwidget.grow = 'left'
cpugraphwidget:plot_properties_set('cpu', {
fg = '#AEC6D8',
fg_center = '#285577',
fg_end = '#285577',
vertical_gradient = false
wicked.register(cpugraphwidget, wicked.widgets.cpu, '$1', 1, 'cpu')
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, cpugraphwidget})
-- {{{ Memory Usage Widget
memtextwidget = widget({
type = 'textbox',
name = 'memtextwidget',
align = 'right'
wicked.register(memtextwidget, wicked.widgets.mem,
settings.widget_spacer..beautiful.markup.heading('MEM')..': '..
'$1% ($2/$3)'..settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator,
3, nil, {2, 4, 4})
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, memtextwidget})
-- {{{ Memory Graph Widget
memgraphwidget = widget({
type = 'graph',
name = 'memgraphwidget',
align = 'right'
memgraphwidget.height = 0.85
memgraphwidget.width = 45
memgraphwidget.bg = '#333333'
memgraphwidget.border_color = '#0a0a0a'
memgraphwidget.grow = 'left'
memgraphwidget:plot_properties_set('mem', {
fg = '#AEC6D8',
fg_center = '#285577',
fg_end = '#285577',
vertical_gradient = false
wicked.register(memgraphwidget, wicked.widgets.mem, '$1', 1, 'mem')
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, memgraphwidget})
-- {{{ Other Widget
settings.widget_spacerwidget = widget({ type = 'textbox', name = 'settings.widget_spacerwidget', align = 'right' })
settings.widget_spacerwidget.text = settings.widget_spacer..settings.widget_separator
table.insert(settings.widgets, {1, settings.widget_spacerwidget})
end
-- You shouldn't have to edit the code after this,
-- it takes care of applying the settings above.
---- {{{ Initialisations
-- Register beautiful with awful
awful.beautiful.register(beautiful)
-- Set default colors
awesome.colors_set({
fg = beautiful.fg_normal,
bg = beautiful.bg_normal })
-- Set default font
awesome.font_set(beautiful.font)
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
"tile",
"tileleft",
"tilebottom",
"tiletop",
"fairh",
"fairv",
"magnifier",
"max",
"fullscreen",
"spiral",
"dwindle",
"floating"
-- Define tag tables
tag_settings = {
{ name="main", layout=layouts[1] },
{ name="work", layout=layouts[1] },
{ name="float", layout=layouts[12] }
-- Initialize tags in awesome 3.1
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
tags[s] = {}
for tagnumber = 1, 3 do
tags[s][tagnumber] = tag({ name = tag_settings[tagnumber].name, layout = tag_settings[tagnumber].layout })
tags[s][tagnumber].screen = s
awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][tagnumber])
end
tags[s][1].selected = true
end
---- {{{ Create statusbars
local mainstatusbar = {}
for i, b in pairs(settings.statusbars) do
mainstatusbar[i] = {}
for s=1,screen.count() do
this_screen = false
if b[2] ~= "all" then
for sc in pairs(b[2]) do
if sc == s then
this_screen = true
break
end
end
end
if b[2] == "all" or this_screen then
mainstatusbar[i][s] = statusbar(b[1])
local widgets = {}
for ii, w in pairs(settings.widgets) do
if w[1] == i then
table.insert(widgets, w[2])
end
end
mainstatusbar[i][s]:widgets(widgets)
mainstatusbar[i][s].screen = s
end
end
end
---- {{{ Create prompt statusbar
local mainpromptbar = statusbar(settings.promptbar)
local mainpromptbox = widget({type = "textbox", align = "left", name = "mainpromptbox"})
mainpromptbar:widgets({mainpromptbox})
mainpromptbar.screen = nil
---- {{{ Useful functions
-- {{{ Mouse warp function
function mouse_warp(c, force)
-- Allow skipping a warp
if warp_skip then
warp_skip = false
return
end
-- Get vars
local sel = c or client.focus
if sel == nil then return end
local coords = sel:coords()
local m = mouse.coords()
-- Settings
mouse_padd = 6
border_area = 5
-- Check if mouse is not already inside the window
if (( m.x < coords.x-border_area or
m.y < coords.y-border_area or
m.x > coords.x+coords.width+border_area or
m.y > coords.y+coords.height+border_area
) and (
table.maxn(m.buttons) == 0
)) or force
then
mouse.coords({ x=coords.x+mouse_padd, y=coords.y+mouse_padd})
end
end
-- {{{ Prompt with statusbar
function prompt_statusbar(s, callback, prompt)
if not callback then callback = awful.spawn end
if not prompt then prompt = " Run: " end
for i, b in pairs(mainstatusbar) do
for ii, bb in pairs(b) do
if bb.screen == s then
bb.screen = nil
end
end
end
mainpromptbar.screen = s
awful.prompt.run({prompt = prompt}, mainpromptbox, callback,
awful.completion.bash, os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.cache/awesome_history", 50, function ()
mainpromptbar.screen = nil
for i, b in pairs(mainstatusbar) do
for ii, bb in pairs(b) do
if ii == s then
bb.screen = ii
end
end
end
end)
end
---- {{{ Create bindings
--- This reads the binding tables and turns them into actual keybindings
-- Always qwerty
-- WM Bindings
for i,table in pairs(settings.bindings.wm) do
for f, keys in pairs(table) do
keybinding(keys[1], keys[2], f):add()
end
end
-- Keyboard digit bindings
for i=1,9 do
for f, mod in pairs(settings.bindings.digits) do
keybinding(mod, i, function()
t = eminent.tag.getn(i, nil, true)
if not t then return end
f(t)
end):add()
end
end
-- Prompt Bindings
for prompt, keys in pairs(settings.bindings.prompt) do
keybinding(keys[1], keys[2], function() prompt_statusbar(mouse.screen, unpack(prompt)) end):add()
end
-- Filemanager bindings
for loc, keys in pairs(settings.bindings.filemanager) do
keybinding(keys[1], keys[2], function() awful.spawn(string.format(settings.apps.filemanager, loc)) end):add()
end
-- Custom command bindings
for command, keys in pairs(settings.bindings.commands) do
keybinding(keys[1], keys[2], function() awful.spawn(command) end):add()
end
-- Desktop mouse bindings
for f, keys in pairs(settings.bindings.mouse.desktop) do
awesome.mouse_add(mouse(keys[1], keys[2], f))
end
---- {{{ Set hooks
-- {{{ Focus hook
awful.hooks.focus.register(function (c)
-- Skip over my urxvtcnotify
if c.name and c.name:lower():find('urxvtcnotify') and awful.client.next(1) ~= c then
awful.client.focusbyidx(1)
return
end
-- Set border
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
-- Raise the client
c:raise()
-- Set statusbar color
if settings.statusbar_highlight_focus and settings.statusbar_highlight_focus[1] then
if last_screen == nil or last_screen ~= c.screen then
mainstatusbar[settings.statusbar_highlight_focus[2]][c.screen].bg = beautiful.bg_sbfocus
if last_screen then
mainstatusbar[settings.statusbar_highlight_focus[2]][last_screen].bg = beautiful.bg_normal
end
end
last_screen = c.screen
end
end)
-- {{{ Unfocus hook
awful.hooks.unfocus.register(function (c)
-- Set border
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
end)
-- {{{ Mouseover hook
awful.hooks.mouseover.register(function (c)
-- Set focus for sloppy focus
client.focus = c
end)
-- {{{ Manage hook
awful.hooks.manage.register(function (c)
local class = ""
local name = ""
if c.class then
class = c.class:lower()
end
if c.name then
name = c.name:lower()
end
-- Create border
c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
-- Add mouse bindings
for f, keys in pairs(settings.bindings.mouse.client) do
c:mouse_add(mouse(keys[1], keys[2], f))
end
-- Check if floating
for app, i in pairs(settings.floating) do
if class:find(app) or name:find(app) then
c.floating = i
break
end
end
if name:find('urxvtcnotify') then
-- I got sick of libnotify/notification-daemon
-- and their dependencies, so I'm using a little
-- urxvtc window with some text in it as notifications :P
-- This makes it appear at the correct place,
-- feel free to remove the whole section, you probably
-- won't need it.
c.screen = 3
c:coords({
x = 1680*2+1400,
y = 18,
width = 276,
height = 106
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
local tags = {}
for i,t in pairs(eminent.tags[3]) do
if eminent.tag.isoccupied(3, t) then
table.insert(tags, t)
end
end
c:tags(tags)
return 0
end
-- Focus new clients
client.focus = c
-- Prevent new windows from becoming master
if not settings.new_become_master then
awful.client.swap(1, c)
end
-- Don't honor size hints
c.honorsizehints = false
end)
-- {{{ Arrange hook
awful.hooks.arrange.register(function(s)
-- Warp the mouse
if settings.warp_mouse then
mouse_warp()
end
-- Check focus
if not client.focus then
local c = awful.client.focus.history.get(s, 0)
if c then client.focus = c end
end
end)
-- vim: set filetype=lua fdm=marker tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab smarttab autoindent smartindent nu:

Answer 1

The most likely reason for you seeing the default settings, or nothing is that there is some error in the configuration file. You would have to take a look at the error output of xorg. Since I start X using startx I can look at it on the first sterminal (ALT - CTRL - F1). I don't know where the output would go if you use GDM or something similar.
If there are errors you could post them here and people might be able to help.
If the comment of the second config file is correct then the config most likely wont work with awesome 3.1 since the sytax of the config file changed between 3.0 and 3.1
Another possibility to get a working config would be to copy the default awesome config into your ~/.config/awesome folder and then gradually make changes to it, exchanging content for stuff from other configs, that way you'd know which change brakes something.