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#1 2012-12-19 02:40:39
- shoe
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[Solved] Awesome WM rc.lua location
I'm running Awesome WM on Arch, I'm really fresh with this stuff so bare with me a seocnd 
Currently, my effective rc.lua is at /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
This posed a huge problem today. When I ran yaourt -Syyu, I believe Awesome may have updated from 3.4 to 3.5 and my rc.lua got overwritten during the update.
I see a lot of the internet referring to rc.lua at ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
I assume I did something wrong during the install, and would like to fix it for best practice and to prevent future problems.
What can I do to get rc.lua working out of the right directory? I googled around and the most relevant discussion I found was here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/172659/h … ome-rc-lua
But his solution is sort of vague and I don't think a tool is required to fix this. Any tips?
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#2 2012-12-19 02:44:06
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Re: [Solved] Awesome WM rc.lua location
Awesome includes some good default settings right out of the box, but sooner or later you'll want to change something. The lua based configuration file is at ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua.
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#3 2012-12-19 02:47:19
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Re: [Solved] Awesome WM rc.lua location
Arch Wiki Awesome entry wrote:Awesome includes some good default settings right out of the box, but sooner or later you'll want to change something. The lua based configuration file is at ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua.
You're saying if I just cp it there, then it will work there?
I guess I thought it would be more complicated. I was expecting another config file that pointed to the path or something. Thanks Jason
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#4 2012-12-19 02:57:28
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Re: [Solved] Awesome WM rc.lua location
jasonwryan wrote:Arch Wiki Awesome entry wrote:Awesome includes some good default settings right out of the box, but sooner or later you'll want to change something. The lua based configuration file is at ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua.
You're saying if I just cp it there, then it will work there?
I haven't run awesome in a while, but it worked back then and, according to the wiki, it still works now...
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#5 2012-12-19 03:05:48
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Re: [Solved] Awesome WM rc.lua location
Right on. I read the wiki over and over but the wiki didn't really explain that the existance of one in ~/.config/awesome would take precedence over the one in the stock location. That's why I was scratching my head. Updated solved THANKS!
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