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OpusMioda

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Registered: 2016-10-27

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Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

Since a recent upgrade not to long ago. Firefox is always in float mode. I have tried F11, Mod4+m, reworking with scripts, and playing around with firefox. And, it is not just Firefox, but the other browser I use (chromium). Not sure exactly what to do. I have searched online for problem solving this issue, but have been unable to fix it. So, does anyone have an idea of what I should do?

Thanks for your time

jasonwryan

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

Paste your config.

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OpusMioda

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

noob question.. but, how or what exactly? The system is full of config files.

jasonwryan

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

Your Awesome config.

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circleface

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

I'm pretty sure jasonwryan meant your AwesomeWM configuration.

Edit: Guess I wasn't fast enough :-)

Last edited by circleface (2017-09-25 23:33:57)

OpusMioda

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

https://pastebin.com/PhrLB0k8

ngoonee

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space",  awful.client.floating.toggle                     ),

This line probably. What's the icon showing for firefox in your wibar?

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OpusMioda

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

not sure what a wibar is.. but, I suspect you mean the bar that holds all the windows.. and the icon is just the firefox logo. Also any suggestions on how to modify that line? I've tried a lot of things, and still can't get the browsers to float instead of full.

digitally404

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Registered: 2013-11-24

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

I know that this is an old thread, but I noticed that there was no solution posted.

I was experiencing the same issue. The issue was that I had created the following keybinding to launch firefox (ModKey+B):

awful.key({ modkey, }, "b", launch_browser, {description = "open a browser", group = "launcher"}),

However, this was a "copy-paste" from the entry used to launch a terminal, and thus the group was part of "launcher".

I noticed several other entries below the terminal ModKey line that had groups belonging to "client", so changing it, and restarting AwesomeWM with Ctrl+ModKey+R, seems to have fixed the issue for me.

awful.key({ modkey, }, "b", launch_browser, {description = "open a browser", group = "client"}),

Firefox now tiles correctly and isn't always full screen.

p.s. "launch_browser" in the snippets is a variable name to my anonymous function to launch firefox, defined below as:

launch_browser = function () awful.spawn("firefox") end

Last edited by digitally404 (2020-05-18 13:25:55)

2ManyDogs

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Re: Firefox not tiling with AwesomeWM

Thanks for the contribution. I am closing this old thread now.