Awesome menu not working?

Thoht · 2008-04-23 23:03:30

Hey!

I installed Awesome,

> sudo pacman -S awesome

and then went about trying to get some sort of launcher up and working, in this case the built-in "awesome-menu", by following these steps.

> mkdir .awesome
> cd .awesome
> touch menu
> nano menu

Then simply inserted these lines:

leafpad
firefox

After that I edited ~/.awesomerc to the following (excerpt):

...
key
{ 
   modkey = {"Mod4"} 
   key = "p" 
   command = "spawn" 
   arg = "exec `cat ~/.awesome/menu | awesome-menu`" 
}
...

But when I launch X and Awesome, and press Mod4+p, nothing happens. I tried installing dmenu instead, and edited ~/.awesomerc once more, to the lines right below the awesome-menu entry in the FAQ linked to above. It works, when the key combo is pressed a light grey bar is displayed in the bottom portion of the screen. So how come the awesome-menu doesn't work?

(I'm aware of the fact that I could use dmenu instead, but I'd rather explore the capabilities of the built-in first afore I go ahead with extra functionalities. The documentation of the both is rather lacking... not sure what the differences are.)

Any ideas/suggestions/tips?

Thank you in advance.

skymt · 2008-04-23 23:23:15

The stable version of Awesome doesn't have awesome-menu. You'll need to upgrade to a development version. Try awesome-git from AUR.

Thoht · 2008-04-23 23:37:57

Oh, my bad. Thank you.

Arch Linux

#1 2008-04-23 23:03:30

Awesome menu not working?

#2 2008-04-23 23:23:15

Re: Awesome menu not working?

#3 2008-04-23 23:37:57

Re: Awesome menu not working?

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