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ThunderRush

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From: Austria

Registered: 2013-01-31

Posts: 22

Awesome Problem - No rc file

I wanted to try out the awesome de, so I quickly traveled to their website, by train, and looked up the installation guide. Did it with yaourt, and it worked like a charm in the first time. But then I wanted to set the standard editor to vim - because nano is...meh - and edited something in the lua file, which I thought would be correct.

Anyhow, whenever I start it, it tells me that there is no RC file. I then downloaded a user made theme and lua - http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/User_C … tion_Files the very first one - but it gave me the same error.

What is wrong with me, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Joekickass

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Registered: 2012-10-04

Posts: 25

Re: Awesome Problem - No rc file

Have you tried verifying the syntax of your rc.lua file? It should be located under

/home/<user>/.config/awesome/rc.lua

Check syntax with

awesome -k /home/<user>/.config/awesome/rc.lua

See http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/manpages/awesome.1.html for more info.

Also, be aware when downloading other themes. They may be written for another version of Awesome than yours, and they are not always backwards compatible. E.g, this page lists changes from version 3.4 to 3.5: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome_3.4_to_3.5.

Antoine

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From: Picton Ontario

Registered: 2012-10-11

Posts: 90

Re: Awesome Problem - No rc file

I wanted to try out the awesome de, so I quickly traveled to their website, by train, and looked up the installation guide. Did it with yaourt, and it worked like a charm in the first time. But then I wanted to set the standard editor to vim - because nano is...meh - and edited something in the lua file, which I thought would be correct.

Anyhow, whenever I start it, it tells me that there is no RC file. I then downloaded a user made theme and lua - http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/User_C … tion_Files the very first one - but it gave me the same error.

What is wrong with me, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

The "very first one" that you mention is for Awesome 3.4; your version will be 3.5, if it came from the Arch repos; the two versions aren't compatible.

What did you do to try to set Vim as your default editor?

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,511

Re: Awesome Problem - No rc file

You copy the original from /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua to your ~/.config/awesome

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I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.