Awesome WM text pointer disappears on tag switch

Question

Hi,
I have the following problem. On one tag I keep Atom with some file open. If I use the mouse to click on some other tag and go back to Atom everything is ok. If I use modkey+<num> to switch to another tag and back while the mouse is over the task bar or over the widgets everything is ok. But when I switch the tag again with the keyboard shortcut and go back to Atom while the mouse is somewhere over the clients the text pointer in Atom disappears and I need to click somewhere in the text to make it reappear. And it's really annoying when coding to reach for the mouse every time you change to some other tag and back.
Here's my rc.lua:
Dremora Awesome WM config 2.0
github.com/copycat-killer
-- {{{ Required libraries
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
local wibox = require("wibox")
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
local naughty = require("naughty")
local drop = require("scratchdrop")
local lain = require("lain")
-- {{{ Error handling
if awesome.startup_errors then
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
text = awesome.startup_errors })
end
do
local in_error = false
awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
if in_error then return end
in_error = true
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, an error happened!",
text = err })
in_error = false
end)
end
-- {{{ Autostart applications
function run_once(cmd)
findme = cmd
firstspace = cmd:find(" ")
if firstspace then
findme = cmd:sub(0, firstspace-1)
end
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -u $USER -x " .. findme .. " > /dev/null || (" .. cmd .. ")")
end
run_once("urxvtd")
run_once("unclutter")
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- localization
--os.setlocale(os.getenv("LANG"))
-- beautiful init
beautiful.init(os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.config/awesome/themes/dremora/theme.lua")
-- common
modkey = "Mod4"
altkey = "Mod1"
terminal = "xfce4-terminal" or "xterm"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "nano" or "vi"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- user defined
browser = "google-chrome"
browser2 = "iron"
gui_editor = "atom"
-- graphics = "gimp"
local layouts = {
awful.layout.suit.floating,
lain.layout.uselesstile,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
lain.layout.uselesstile.left,
lain.layout.uselesstile.top
-- {{{ Tags
tags = {
names = { "ƀ", "Ƅ", "Ɗ", "ƈ", "ƙ" },
layout = { layouts[1], layouts[3], layouts[2], layouts[1], layouts[5] }
for s = 1, screen.count() do
tags[s] = awful.tag(tags.names, s, tags.layout)
end
-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
for s = 1, screen.count() do
gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
end
end
-- {{{ Menu
mymainmenu = awful.menu.new({ items = require("menugen").build_menu(),
theme = { height = 16, width = 130 }})
-- {{{ Wibox
markup = lain.util.markup
white = beautiful.fg_focus
gray = "#858585"
-- Textclock
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock(markup(gray, " %a")
.. markup(white, " %d ") .. markup(gray, "%b ") .. markup(white, "%H:%M "))
-- Calendar
lain.widgets.calendar:attach(mytextclock, { fg = white })
--[[ Mail IMAP check
-- commented because it needs to be set before use
mailwidget = lain.widgets.imap({
timeout = 180,
server = "server",
mail = "mail",
password = "keyring get mail",
settings = function()
mail_notification_preset.fg = white
mail = ""
count = ""
if mailcount > 0 then
mail = "Mail "
count = mailcount .. " "
end
widget:set_markup(markup(gray, mail) .. markup(white, count))
end
-- MPD
mpdwidget = lain.widgets.mpd({
settings = function()
mpd_notification_preset.fg = white
artist = mpd_now.artist .. " "
title = mpd_now.title .. " "
file = mpd_now.file .. " "
if mpd_now.state == "pause" then
file = "mpd paused"
elseif mpd_now.state == "stop" then
file = ""
end
widget:set_markup(markup(gray, file))
end
-- /home fs
fshome = lain.widgets.fs({
partition = "/home",
settings = function()
fs_notification_preset.fg = white
fs_header = ""
fs_p = ""
if fs_now.used >= 90 then
fs_header = " Hdd "
fs_p = fs_now.used
end
widget:set_markup(markup(gray, fs_header) .. markup(white, fs_p))
end
-- Battery
batwidget = lain.widgets.bat({
settings = function()
bat_header = " Bat "
bat_p = bat_now.perc .. " "
if bat_now.status == "Not present" then
bat_header = ""
bat_p = ""
end
widget:set_markup(markup(gray, bat_header) .. markup(white, bat_p))
end
-- ALSA volume
volumewidget = lain.widgets.alsa({
settings = function()
header = " Vol "
vlevel = volume_now.level
if volume_now.status == "off" then
vlevel = vlevel .. "M "
else
vlevel = vlevel .. " "
end
widget:set_markup(markup(gray, header) .. markup(white, vlevel))
end
-- Weather
yawn = lain.widgets.yawn(123456,
settings = function()
yawn_notification_preset.fg = white
end
-- Separators
first = wibox.widget.textbox('<span font="Tamsyn 4"> </span>')
arrl_pre = wibox.widget.imagebox()
arrl_pre:set_image(beautiful.arrl_lr_pre)
arrl_post = wibox.widget.imagebox()
arrl_post:set_image(beautiful.arrl_lr_post)
-- 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, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if c == client.focus then
c.minimized = true
else
-- Without this, the following
-- :isvisible() makes no sense
c.minimized = false
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
-- This will also un-minimize
-- the client, if needed
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
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()
-- 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.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s, height = 18 })
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(first)
left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
left_layout:add(arrl_pre)
left_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])
left_layout:add(arrl_post)
left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])
left_layout:add(first)
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(first)
right_layout:add(mpdwidget)
--right_layout:add(mailwidget)
right_layout:add(fshome)
right_layout:add(batwidget)
right_layout:add(volumewidget)
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
-- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
layout:set_right(right_layout)
mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
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(
-- Take a screenshot
-- https://github.com/copycat-killer/dots/blob/master/bin/screenshot
awful.key({ altkey }, "p", function() os.execute("screenshot") end),
-- Tag browsing
awful.key({ modkey }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
-- Non-empty tag browsing
awful.key({ altkey }, "Left", function () lain.util.tag_view_nonempty(-1) end),
awful.key({ altkey }, "Right", function () lain.util.tag_view_nonempty(1) end),
-- Default client focus
awful.key({ altkey }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ altkey }, "j",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
-- By direction client focus
awful.key({ modkey }, "j",
function()
awful.client.focus.bydirection("down")
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "k",
function()
awful.client.focus.bydirection("up")
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "h",
function()
awful.client.focus.bydirection("left")
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "l",
function()
awful.client.focus.bydirection("right")
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
-- Show Menu
-- awful.key({ modkey }, "w",
-- function ()
-- mymainmenu:show({ keygrabber = true })
-- end),
-- Show/Hide Wibox
-- awful.key({ modkey }, "b", function ()
-- mywibox[mouse.screen].visible = not mywibox[mouse.screen].visible
-- end),
-- On the fly useless gaps change
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "=", function () lain.util.useless_gaps_resize(1) end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "-", function () lain.util.useless_gaps_resize(-1) end),
-- Layout manipulation
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, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", 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, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),
-- 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),
-- Dropdown terminal
awful.key({ modkey, }, "z", function () drop(terminal) end),
-- Widgets popups
awful.key({ altkey, }, "c", function () lain.widgets.calendar:show(7) end),
awful.key({ altkey, }, "h", function () fshome.show(7) end),
awful.key({ altkey, }, "w", function () yawn.show(7) end),
-- ALSA volume control
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume",
function ()
awful.util.spawn(string.format("amixer -c %s set %s 1+", volumewidget.card, volumewidget.channel))
volumewidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioLowerVolume",
function ()
awful.util.spawn(string.format("amixer -c %s set %s 1-", volumewidget.card, volumewidget.channel))
volumewidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioMute",
function ()
awful.util.spawn(string.format("amixer -c %s set %s toggle", volumewidget.card, volumewidget.channel))
--awful.util.spawn(string.format("amixer set %s toggle", volumewidget.channel))
volumewidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "m",
function ()
awful.util.spawn(string.format("amixer -c %s set %s 100%%", volumewidget.card, volumewidget.channel))
volumewidget.update()
end),
-- MPD control
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioPlay",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc toggle || ncmpc toggle || pms toggle")
mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioStop",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc stop || ncmpc stop || pms stop")
mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioPrev",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc prev || ncmpc prev || pms prev")
mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioNext",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc next || ncmpc next || pms next")
mpdwidget.update()
end),
-- Copy to clipboard
awful.key({ modkey }, "c", function () os.execute("xsel -p -o | xsel -i -b") end),
-- User programs
awful.key({ modkey }, "w", function () awful.util.spawn(browser) end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "s", function () awful.util.spawn(gui_editor) end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "g", function () awful.util.spawn(graphics) end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "e", function () awful.util.spawn("thunar") end),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
awful.util.eval, nil,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end),
-- {{ Configures Keymap }} --
awful.key({ "Control", "Shift" }, "k",
function()
awful.util.spawn("xmodmap /home/peio/.Xmodmap_Internal")
naughty.notify({ timeout = 8, text = "Keyboard configured for internal." })
end),
awful.key({ "Control", "Shift" }, "l",
function()
awful.util.spawn("xmodmap /home/peio/.Xmodmap_External")
naughty.notify({ timeout = 8, text = "Keyboard configured for external." })
end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "q", 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, }, "t", function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n",
function (c)
-- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
-- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
c.minimized = true
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
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.
for i = 1, 9 do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.tag.viewonly(tag)
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tag)
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if client.focus and tag then
awful.client.movetotag(tag)
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if client.focus and tag then
awful.client.toggletag(tag)
end
end))
end
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)
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons,
size_hints_honor = false } },
{ rule = { class = "URxvt" },
properties = { opacity = 0.99 } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Dwb" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1] } },
{ rule = { class = "Iron" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1] } },
{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1] } },
{ rule = { class = "Gimp" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][4] } },
{ rule = { class = "Gimp", role = "gimp-image-window" },
properties = { maximized_horizontal = true,
maximized_vertical = true } },
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:connect_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 and 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
local titlebars_enabled = false
if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
-- buttons for the titlebar
local buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.move(c)
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
end)
-- Title in the middle
local middle_layout = wibox.layout.flex.horizontal()
local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
title:set_align("center")
middle_layout:add(title)
middle_layout:buttons(buttons)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_middle(middle_layout)
awful.titlebar(c,{size=18}):set_widget(layout)
end
end)
-- No border for maximized clients
client.connect_signal("focus",
function(c)
if c.maximized_horizontal == true and c.maximized_vertical == true then
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
else
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
end
end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- {{{ Arrange signal handler
for s = 1, screen.count() do screen[s]:connect_signal("arrange", function ()
local clients = awful.client.visible(s)
local layout = awful.layout.getname(awful.layout.get(s))
if #clients > 0 then -- Fine grained borders and floaters control
for _, c in pairs(clients) do -- Floaters always have borders
if awful.client.floating.get(c) or layout == "floating" then
c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
-- No borders with only one visible client
elseif #clients == 1 or layout == "max" then
clients[1].border_width = 0
else
c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
end
end
end
end)
end
function run_once(cmd)
findme = cmd
firstspace = cmd:find(" ")
if firstspace then
findme = cmd:sub(0, firstspace-1)
end
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -u $USER -x " .. findme .. " > /dev/null || (" .. cmd .. ")")
end
run_once("nm-applet")
If someone can help me I'll be really thankful.
Best regards,
Georgi

Answer 1

This is weird behavior that I don't experience with Awesome and Atom. Does this happen only with Atom, or with anything? One aspect of your rc.lua that might cause something like this is the sloppy focusing, this bit here:
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:connect_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)
Try disabling that, by commenting it out entirely, and see if the problem persists.
If it only happens with Atom, then maybe Atom conflicts for some reason with this sloppy focusing.