awesome wm mod+r and aliases

natostanco · 2011-05-10 11:14:16

Hello, I have a .bashrc where I have set some aliases, but these don't work when I run mod+r command from awesome wm, how can I fix this?

koomi · 2011-05-10 15:39:51

This doesn't work because awful.util.spawn doesn't spawn a shell and it won't work with awful.util.spawn_with_shell because the shell has to be interactive to check for aliases.
But you could either spawn a shell which executes a command in interactive mode, e.g. with bash 'bash -i -c "alias"', or you use functions instead of aliases and use awful.util.spawn_with_shell (didn't try this, not sure it works).

natostanco · 2011-05-17 09:33:22

what i have done so far is adding a script for every alias in /bin/ directory

Stebalien · 2011-05-17 11:43:35

Have awesome call somthing like this:

#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_aliases
eval "$@"

natostanco · 2011-05-19 08:42:52

can you explain better? thanks

Kooothor · 2013-03-05 13:26:02

I'm necroposting because this is the top result on Google and it is not solved.

Here is a solution to have working aliases in awesome run prompt :

edit your ~/.xinitrc, and just before the «exec awesome»
add something like :
source ~/.zshrc if you use zsh
or
source ~/.bashrc

You will then have your $PATH and your aliases working in the Run prompt

geekmiki · 2014-01-18 18:15:03

Hi,

I tried your solution by placing source ~/.bashrc in .xinitrc but I'm still unable to use my aliases with mod+r.

Anything else I could try to get aliases working?

ewaller · 2014-01-18 18:36:37

geekmiki,
Hey, I am going to go ahead and close this thread. It is just too old.

Please feel free to start a new thread, state your problem and, if you feel this thread is relevant, go head and link back to this thread.

Thanks.

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#1 2011-05-10 11:14:16

awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#2 2011-05-10 15:39:51

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#3 2011-05-17 09:33:22

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#4 2011-05-17 11:43:35

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#5 2011-05-19 08:42:52

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#6 2013-03-05 13:26:02

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#7 2014-01-18 18:15:03

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

#8 2014-01-18 18:36:37

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

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