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Awesome WM 4 configuration
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
local vicious = require("vicious")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
local hotkeys_popup = require("awful.hotkeys_popup").widget
-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
text = awesome.startup_errors })
end
-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
local in_error = false
awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
-- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
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
-- }}}
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir('config') .. "themes/default/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "terminator"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vim"
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.
awful.layout.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,
awful.layout.suit.corner.nw
}
-- }}}
-- {{{ Helper functions
local function client_menu_toggle_fn()
local instance = nil
return function ()
if instance and instance.wibox.visible then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ theme = { width = 250 } })
end
end
end
-- }}}
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
mymenu = awful.menu({
items = {
{"hotkeys", function() return false, hotkeys_popup.show_help end},
{"terminal", terminal},
{"restart", awesome.restart},
{"quit", function() awesome.quit() end}
}
})
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({image = beautiful.awesome_icon, menu = mymenu})
-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal -- Set the terminal for applications that require it
-- }}}
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = wibox.widget.textclock(" %H:%M @ %Y-%m-%d ")
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
local taglist_buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({}, 1, function(t) t:view_only() end),
awful.button({modkey}, 1, function(t)
if client.focus then
client.focus:move_to_tag(t)
end
end),
awful.button({}, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({modkey}, 3, function(t)
if client.focus then
client.focus:toggle_tag(t)
end
end),
awful.button({}, 4, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(t.screen) end),
awful.button({}, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(t.screen) end)
)
local tasklist_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() and c.first_tag then
c.first_tag:view_only()
end
-- This will also un-minimize
-- the client, if needed
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
end),
awful.button({}, 3, client_menu_toggle_fn()),
awful.button({}, 4, function() awful.client.focus.byidx(1) end),
awful.button({}, 5, function() awful.client.focus.byidx(-1) end)
)
local function set_wallpaper(s)
-- Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
local wallpaper = beautiful.wallpaper
-- If wallpaper is a function, call it with the screen
if type(wallpaper) == "function" then
wallpaper = wallpaper(s)
end
gears.wallpaper.maximized(wallpaper, s, true)
end
end
-- Re-set wallpaper when a screen's geometry changes (e.g. different resolution)
screen.connect_signal("property::geometry", set_wallpaper)
awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(function(s)
-- Wallpaper
--set_wallpaper(s)
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
awful.tag({ "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" }, s, awful.layout.layouts[1])
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
s.mypromptbox = awful.widget.prompt()
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
s.mylayoutbox = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
s.mylayoutbox:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({}, 1, function() awful.layout.inc(1) end),
awful.button({}, 3, function() awful.layout.inc(-1) end),
awful.button({}, 4, function() awful.layout.inc(1) end),
awful.button({}, 5, function() awful.layout.inc(-1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
s.mytaglist = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, taglist_buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
s.mytasklist = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, tasklist_buttons)
-- Create the wibox
s.mywibox = awful.wibar({position = "top", screen = s})
-- Add widgets to the wibox
s.mywibox:setup {
layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
{ -- Left widgets
layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
mylauncher,
s.mytaglist,
s.mypromptbox,
},
s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
{ -- Right widgets
layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
--mykeyboardlayout,
wibox.widget.systray(),
--batterywidget,
--volumewidget,
--cpubar,
--memwidget,
mytextclock,
s.mylayoutbox,
},
}
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({}, "#107",
function ()
awful.util.spawn("scrot '" .. awful.util.getdir('config') .. "../../tmp/%Y-%m-%d-%H-%m-%S.png'")
end,
{description = "make screenshot", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "Left",
awful.tag.viewprev,
{description = "view previous", group = "tag"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "Right",
awful.tag.viewnext,
{description = "view next", group = "tag"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "Escape",
awful.tag.history.restore,
{description = "go back", group = "tag"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "j",
function() awful.client.focus.byidx( 1) end,
{description = "focus next by index", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function() awful.client.focus.byidx(-1) end,
{description = "focus previous by index", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w",
function() mymainmenu:show() end,
{description = "show main menu", group = "awesome"}),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"}, "j",
function() awful.client.swap.byidx(1) end,
{description = "swap with next client by index", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"}, "k",
function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end,
{description = "swap with previous client by index", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j",
function() awful.screen.focus_relative(1) end,
{description = "focus the next screen", group = "screen"}),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k",
function() awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end,
{description = "focus the previous screen", group = "screen"}),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u",
awful.client.urgent.jumpto,
{description = "jump to urgent client", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end,
{description = "go back", group = "client"}),
-- Standard program
awful.key({modkey, }, "Return",
function() awful.spawn(terminal) end,
{description = "open a terminal", group = "launcher"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Control"}, "r",
awesome.restart,
{description = "reload awesome", group = "awesome"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "q",
awesome.quit,
{description = "quit awesome", group = "awesome"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "l",
function() awful.tag.incmwfact(0.05) end,
{description = "increase master width factor", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "h",
function() awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end,
{description = "decrease master width factor", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "h",
function() awful.tag.incnmaster(1, nil, true) end,
{description = "increase the number of master clients", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "l",
function() awful.tag.incnmaster(-1, nil, true) end,
{description = "decrease the number of master clients", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Control"}, "h",
function() awful.tag.incncol( 1, nil, true) end,
{description = "increase the number of columns", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Control"}, "l",
function() awful.tag.incncol(-1, nil, true) end,
{description = "decrease the number of columns", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "space",
function() awful.layout.inc(1) end,
{description = "select next", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "space",
function() awful.layout.inc(-1) end,
{description = "select previous", group = "layout"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Control"}, "n",
function ()
local c = awful.client.restore()
-- Focus restored client
if c then
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
end,
{description = "restore minimized", group = "client"}),
-- Prompt
awful.key({modkey}, "r",
function()
awful.screen.focused().mypromptbox:run()
end,
{description = "run prompt", group = "launcher"}),
awful.key({modkey}, "x",
function()
awful.prompt.run {
prompt = "Run Lua code: ",
textbox = awful.screen.focused().mypromptbox.widget,
exe_callback = awful.util.eval,
history_path = awful.util.get_cache_dir() .. "/history_eval"
}
end,
{description = "lua prompt", group = "awesome"}),
-- Menubar
awful.key({modkey}, "p",
function()
menubar.show()
end,
{description = "show the menubar", group = "launcher"})
)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({modkey,}, "f",
function (c)
c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen
c:raise()
end,
{description = "toggle fullscreen", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "c",
function(c) c:kill() end,
{description = "close", group = "client"}),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control"}, "space",
awful.client.floating.toggle,
{description = "toggle floating", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey, "Control"}, "Return",
function(c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end,
{description = "move to master", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "o",
awful.client.movetoscreen,
{description = "move to screen", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey, }, "t",
function(c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end,
{description = "toggle keep on top", group = "client"}),
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,
{description = "minimize", group = "client"}),
awful.key({modkey,}, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized = not c.maximized
c:raise()
end,
{description = "maximize", group = "client"})
)
-- 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,
-- View tag
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,
{description = "view tag #"..i, group = "tag"}),
-- Toggle tag display
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,
{description = "toggle tag #" .. i, group = "tag"}),
-- Move client to tag
awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
if client.focus then
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.client.movetotag(tag)
end
end
end,
{description = "move focused client to tag #"..i, group = "tag"}),
-- Toggle tag on focused client
awful.key({modkey, "Control", "Shift"}, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
if client.focus then
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.client.toggletag(tag)
end
end
end,
{description = "toggle focused client on tag #" .. i, group = "tag"})
)
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,
raise = true,
screen = awful.screen.preferred,
placement = awful.placement.no_overlap+awful.placement.no_offscreen
}
},
{
rule_any = {type = { "normal", "dialog" }},
properties = {titlebars_enabled = false}
},
}
-- }}}
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c)
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- if not awesome.startup then awful.client.setslave(c) end
if awesome.startup and not c.size_hints.user_position
and not c.size_hints.program_position then
-- Prevent clients from being unreachable after screen count changes.
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end)
-- Add a titlebar if titlebars_enabled is set to true in the rules.
client.connect_signal("request::titlebars", function(c)
-- 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)
)
awful.titlebar(c):setup {
{ -- Left
awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c),
buttons = buttons,
layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal
},
{ -- Middle
{ -- Title
align = "center",
widget = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
},
buttons = buttons,
layout = wibox.layout.flex.horizontal
},
{ -- Right
awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c),
awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c),
awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c),
awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c),
awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c),
layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
},
layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal
}
end)
-- Enable sloppy focus, so that focus follows mouse.
client.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)
client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- }}}
function run_once(prg,arg_string,pname,screen)
if not prg then
do return nil end
end
if not pname then
pname = prg
end
if not arg_string then
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -f -u $USER -x '" .. pname .. "' || (" .. prg .. ")", screen)
else
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -f -u $USER -x '" .. pname .. " ".. arg_string .."' || (" .. prg .. " " .. arg_string .. ")", screen)
end
end
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