two questions on awesome use SOLVED

nephish99 · 2009-07-08 17:42:37

Hey all,

I am really digging awesome. Very cool.
I have been trying to find a way to keep the 1pix border on the windows because the color tells me which has focus, but is there a way to have awesome not draw a border for a floating window?

next, when i use mod-p to get the little run dialog at the top, it allows tab completion. I have seen a couple of other tiling wms that use something else. like wmii shows an as-you-type lookup, is there a way to have this in awesome?

Well, thats all the questions i had that i could not find myself.
thanks for any tips

Last edited by nephish99 (2009-07-13 13:33:45)

Intrepid · 2009-07-09 01:30:31

Ok as for tab completion, use dmenu_run to see all the apps and replace Modkey + P in your rc.lua to do this. This is identical to WMII

Second, I'm sure it would be easy enough to code a hook yourself when creating a floating window which turns off borders. Have a look at the API called awful at awesome.naquadah.org. Highly useful information!

Third, Xmonad does that (easily remove border from floating windows), but I don't exactly advocate Xmonad anymore; I like awesome better and it's just as scriptable, again, look at the hook syntax.

nephish99 · 2009-07-09 02:17:55

cool, thanks, have the dmenu_run and it's terrific.
So, still looking into the float thing, but wanted to say thanks

Intrepid · 2009-07-09 02:53:31

In your rc.lua, go to the section that says awful.hooks.manage.register(function (c, startup)
Go to the section that says -- Check if the application should be floating.
Underneath EACH line that says awful.client.floating.set within this hook ONLY..... write this line:

c.border_width = 0

Ok add this COMPLETELY AFTER the section that says "Check if the application should be floating" within this hook ONLY

if awful.client.floating.get(cls) then
     c.border_width = 0
end

Now you need to make a new function when making a window nontiling. Replace ALL instances of awful.client.floating.toggle in your rc.lua with customfloat . Now make a new function after beautiful.init:

function customfloat ()
   local c = awful.focus.history.get(screen,0)
   if c then client.focus = c end
   if not awful.client.floating.get(c) then
     c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
   end
end

PLEASE BACK UP YOUR RC.LUA. I think this code will work but I am not sure as I find it silly you want to disable the borders!

HOWEVER if you want no borders for ONE application, e.g. just Wine programs then it's much simpler than this. You have to make the program start floating first and set the borders to 0 in the manage hook if the window matches the class of the floating window. Tell me which one you want.

Last edited by Intrepid (2009-07-09 03:01:55)

nephish99 · 2009-07-09 03:27:22

Hey, thanks again.
Put into place what you have, but it removed the borders of every window, not just the tiling ones.

The floating terms do look cool though

nephish99 · 2009-07-09 15:44:33

you know, if it's easier, it would be cool just to have the border drawn for any focused window, but no others

Intrepid · 2009-07-11 19:42:12

That would actually be much easier. Then take out all of that code and instead do this.
In awful.hooks.focus.register(function (c) section add this to the end:

 c.border_width = beautiful.border_width

In awful.hooks.unfocus.register(function (c) section Comment every line out with --. Then add the following at the end

 c.border_width = 0

nephish99 · 2009-07-11 20:32:26

works perfectly ! thanks a million.

Intrepid · 2009-07-13 03:00:51

please edit your first post and include in the title [SOLVED] And I'm very happy to help!

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#1 2009-07-08 17:42:37

two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#2 2009-07-09 01:30:31

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#3 2009-07-09 02:17:55

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#4 2009-07-09 02:53:31

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#5 2009-07-09 03:27:22

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#6 2009-07-09 15:44:33

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#7 2009-07-11 19:42:12

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

#8 2009-07-11 20:32:26

Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

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Re: two questions on awesome use SOLVED

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