After installed awesome wm, I used xrandr to change my resolution with xrandr -s 1920x1080 but the screen seem to be at 50% of scale Tried to restart ...

Basically, the question. As far as I know, AwesomeWM does not use the cairo-gl backend when using cairo. Would it be difficult to make AwesomeWM mayb ...

a few days ago I began to hit Awesomewm and a doubt came to me to customize. By standard AWM comes with a unique configuration file called RC.Lua, I w ...

I'm trying to implement some Super-Tab functionality into awesome-wm so that it acts in a similar way to alt tab, going through tags in order of last ...

I try to synchronize a cairo surface's update with my textclock refresh. Is it possible to hook a gears.timer to textclock's one? or should I create ...

i am trying to remove the titlebar in Awesome wm 4.3 when the layout changes (in my case) to "max.fullscreen": I have tried connecting several sign ...

My problem is that the basic option to make keybindings in Awesome WM (Window Manager), awful.key(), doesn't work for keybindings like [super+d, e] or ...

I'm trying to create a startup-run daemon client for my emacs. The Lua file identifies "--" as a comment "usr/bin/emacs --daemon" my rc.lua file thi ...

Note: I need this information because I'm working on an alternative widget library for awesome-wm. In short, how do I redraw only portions of a cairo ...

I am creating a tasklist with drag and drop. In the widget_template create_callback function I am using this code: self:connect_signal("button::pres ...

I'm writing an alternative widget library for AwesomeWM. In this project, I would like to give the user some functions for manipulating nodes, but som ...

Trying to find the shortcut to toggle or make a window Sticky in awesome wm. I have not seen any shortcut for this function mentioned in the help menu ...

I'm trying to create my own widgets that inherit from a widget instance constructed using make_widget_declarative, so I can add more functionality and ...

How do I create a global overlay of all tags? Pressing a shortcut should make all tags appear in seperate boxes in one screen. It should look somethi ...

I set Ranger as a keybind with Awesome Window Manager (AWM). My environmental variables and shell (ZSH) for both visual and editor are set to VIM. Whe ...

This is for anyone who's having trouble getting started with cairo. The documentation didn't give a good, complete example. That's why I wanted to sh ...

I was wondering what I should use when I am declaring a new widget. Because to me local some_widget = wibox({}) and local some_widget = wibox.widg ...

I have two (identical) monitors connected to the same graphics card, and am running AwesomeWM. The default configuration has nine tags, basically givi ...

I want to access the internal widgets but it gives me an error, that I can't index a nil value. My widget: local previewWidget = wibox() previewWid ...

I'm trying to access the properties of the following widget: local cpu_widget = wibox.widget{ { max_value = 100, paddings = 1, ...