[SOLVED]Arch Linux Awesome Lua Not Working

justanotheruser · 2015-10-01 21:07:56

Hi,
I recently installed Arch Linux on Virtual Box. Things were running fine until I discovered Awesome. When I tried changing the theme, none of the changes were taking place. I have followed everything mentioned in the wiki for awesome config.
When I tried to run the rc.lua file from ~/.config/awesome I am getting the below error:

lua: rc.lua:2: module 'gears' not found:
	no field package.preload['gears']
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/gears.lua'
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/gears/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/gears.lua'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/gears/init.lua'
	no file './gears.lua'
	no file './gears/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/gears.so'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/loadall.so'
	no file './gears.so'
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'require'
	rc.lua:2: in main chunk
	[C]: in ?

When I did an ls, I did not find the module there.

ls -l /usr/share/lua/5.3/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov  1  2014 ldoc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May  4 13:41 lgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  756 May  4 13:41 lgi.lua
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May  5 08:39 pl
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:59 vicious

And it's not just with this module. When I commented out this line I got another error saying that it cannot find awful modules now.
It seems like lua is not being able to find any of the modules!
I do have LGI installed.

 awesome]$ lua -e 'lgi = require("lgi") print(lgi.cairo, lgi.Pango, lgi.PangoCairo)'
table: 0xd5a3f0	table: 0xdacd90	table: 0xe78a00

Not sure what to do now. This is driving me crazy now.

Any help would be a life saver at this point in time.
Just trying to build a nice customised desktop :-).

Thanks in Advance!

Last edited by justanotheruser (2015-10-02 20:36:29)

suija · 2015-10-01 21:22:40

Hello, I am not very knowledgeable, but i am running awesome and i want to help.

Isn't gears a module that comes installed always by default. I have mine in /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears, I have no gears named stuff in /usr/share/lua/5.3/
Does awesome work with the default rc.lua (copied from /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua) and default theme?
Can we see your theme.lua and rc.lua that you want to use?

It looks to me as if awesome is looking for the gears module in the wrong place.

Last edited by suija (2015-10-01 21:26:06)

Raynman · 2015-10-01 21:45:33

suija wrote:

It looks to me as if awesome is looking for the gears module in the wrong place.

That makes sense, because this...

justanotheruser wrote:

When I tried to run the rc.lua file from ~/.config/awesome I am getting the below error:

...sounds like running rc.lua manually instead of letting awesome load the file.

justanotheruser · 2015-10-02 06:57:11

HI,
Thanks a lot for your replies. I'll try my best to answer your queries below.

Here is my rc.lua

--print LUA.PATH
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
[b][color=red]
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/sky/theme.lua")
[/color][/b]
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")

-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
    naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
                     title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
                     text = awesome.startup_errors })
end

-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
    local in_error = false
    awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
        -- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
        if in_error then return end
        in_error = true

        naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
                         title = "Oops, an error happened!",
                         text = err })
        in_error = false
    end)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")

-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "xterm"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "nano"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor

-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"

-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
local layouts =
{
    awful.layout.suit.floating,
    awful.layout.suit.tile,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
    awful.layout.suit.fair,
    awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
    awful.layout.suit.max,
    awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
    awful.layout.suit.magnifier
}
-- }}}

-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
    for s = 1, screen.count() do
        gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
    end
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
    -- Each screen has its own tag table.
    tags[s] = awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s, layouts[1])
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
   { "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
   { "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
   { "restart", awesome.restart },
   { "quit", awesome.quit }
}

mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
                                    { "open terminal", terminal }
                                  }
                        })

mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon,
                                     menu = mymainmenu })

-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal -- Set the terminal for applications that require it
-- }}}

-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()

-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                    awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
                    awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
                    awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
                    awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
                    awful.button({ }, 4, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
                    awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
                    )
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                     awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
                                              if c == client.focus then
                                                  c.minimized = true
                                              else
                                                  -- Without this, the following
                                                  -- :isvisible() makes no sense
                                                  c.minimized = false
                                                  if not c:isvisible() then
                                                      awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
                                                  end
                                                  -- This will also un-minimize
                                                  -- the client, if needed
                                                  client.focus = c
                                                  c:raise()
                                              end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
                                              if instance then
                                                  instance:hide()
                                                  instance = nil
                                              else
                                                  instance = awful.menu.clients({
                                                      theme = { width = 250 }
                                                  })
                                              end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
                                              awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
                                              if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
                                              awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
                                              if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
                                          end))

for s = 1, screen.count() do
    -- Create a promptbox for each screen
    mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
    -- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
    -- We need one layoutbox per screen.
    mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
    mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
                           awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
    -- Create a taglist widget
    mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)

    -- Create a tasklist widget
    mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)

    -- Create the wibox
    mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })

    -- Widgets that are aligned to the left
    local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
    left_layout:add(mylauncher)
    left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
    left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])

    -- Widgets that are aligned to the right
    local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
    if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
    right_layout:add(mytextclock)
    right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])

    -- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
    local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
    layout:set_left(left_layout)
    layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
    layout:set_right(right_layout)

    mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
    awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
    awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
    awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
))
-- }}}

-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Left",   awful.tag.viewprev       ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Right",  awful.tag.viewnext       ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),

    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "j",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
            if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "k",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
            if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show() end),

    -- Layout manipulation
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx(  1)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Tab",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.history.previous()
            if client.focus then
                client.focus:raise()
            end
        end),

    -- Standard program
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "q", awesome.quit),

    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1)      end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1)      end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incncol( 1)         end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incncol(-1)         end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts,  1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),

    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),

    -- Prompt
    awful.key({ modkey },            "r",     function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),

    awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
              function ()
                  awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
                  mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
                  awful.util.eval, nil,
                  awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
              end),
    -- Menubar
    awful.key({ modkey }, "p", function() menubar.show() end)
)

clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "f",      function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen  end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "c",      function (c) c:kill()                         end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space",  awful.client.floating.toggle                     ),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "o",      awful.client.movetoscreen                        ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "t",      function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop            end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "n",
        function (c)
            -- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
            -- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
            c.minimized = true
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "m",
        function (c)
            c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
            c.maximized_vertical   = not c.maximized_vertical
        end)
)

-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, 9 do
    globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
        -- View tag only.
        awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                        local screen = mouse.screen
                        local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
                        if tag then
                           awful.tag.viewonly(tag)
                        end
                  end),
        -- Toggle tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      local screen = mouse.screen
                      local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
                      if tag then
                         awful.tag.viewtoggle(tag)
                      end
                  end),
        -- Move client to tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      if client.focus then
                          local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
                          if tag then
                              awful.client.movetotag(tag)
                          end
                     end
                  end),
        -- Toggle tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      if client.focus then
                          local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
                          if tag then
                              awful.client.toggletag(tag)
                          end
                      end
                  end))
end

clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
    awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
    awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))

-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- }}}

-- {{{ Rules
-- Rules to apply to new clients (through the "manage" signal).
awful.rules.rules = {
    -- All clients will match this rule.
    { rule = { },
      properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
                     border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
                     focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
                     raise = true,
                     keys = clientkeys,
                     buttons = clientbuttons } },
    { rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    { rule = { class = "pinentry" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    { rule = { class = "gimp" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    -- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
    -- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
    --   properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
}
-- }}}

-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
    -- Enable sloppy focus
    c:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
        if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
            and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
            client.focus = c
        end
    end)

    if not startup then
        -- Set the windows at the slave,
        -- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
        -- awful.client.setslave(c)

        -- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
        if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
            awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
            awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
        end
    end

    local titlebars_enabled = false
    if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
        -- buttons for the titlebar
        local buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                awful.button({ }, 1, function()
                    client.focus = c
                    c:raise()
                    awful.mouse.client.move(c)
                end),
                awful.button({ }, 3, function()
                    client.focus = c
                    c:raise()
                    awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
                end)
                )

        -- Widgets that are aligned to the left
        local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
        left_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c))
        left_layout:buttons(buttons)

        -- Widgets that are aligned to the right
        local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c))

        -- The title goes in the middle
        local middle_layout = wibox.layout.flex.horizontal()
        local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
        title:set_align("center")
        middle_layout:add(title)
        middle_layout:buttons(buttons)

        -- Now bring it all together
        local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
        layout:set_left(left_layout)
        layout:set_right(right_layout)
        layout:set_middle(middle_layout)

        awful.titlebar(c):set_widget(layout)
    end
end)

client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- }}}

In the default version there is no mention of any theme file being used, but even when I was putting in lines like the one highlighted in red no change is taking place. This actually led me to run rc.lua manually to check if there is any issue with rc.lua.
I had copied the theme files from /usr/share/awesome/themes to ~/.config/awesome.

Sky Theme (No changes made here)

-------------------------------
--    "Sky" awesome theme    --
--  By Andrei "Garoth" Thorp --
-------------------------------
-- If you want SVGs and extras, get them from garoth.com/awesome/sky-theme

-- BASICS
theme = {}
theme.font          = "sans 8"

theme.bg_focus      = "#e2eeea"
theme.bg_normal     = "#729fcf"
theme.bg_urgent     = "#fce94f"
theme.bg_minimize   = "#0067ce"
theme.bg_systray    = theme.bg_normal

theme.fg_normal     = "#2e3436"
theme.fg_focus      = "#2e3436"
theme.fg_urgent     = "#2e3436"
theme.fg_minimize   = "#2e3436"

theme.border_width  = 2
theme.border_normal = "#dae3e0"
theme.border_focus  = "#729fcf"
theme.border_marked = "#eeeeec"

-- IMAGES
theme.layout_fairh           = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/fairh.png"
theme.layout_fairv           = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/fairv.png"
theme.layout_floating        = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/floating.png"
theme.layout_magnifier       = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/magnifier.png"
theme.layout_max             = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/max.png"
theme.layout_fullscreen      = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/fullscreen.png"
theme.layout_tilebottom      = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/tilebottom.png"
theme.layout_tileleft        = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/tileleft.png"
theme.layout_tile            = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/tile.png"
theme.layout_tiletop         = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/tiletop.png"
theme.layout_spiral          = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/spiral.png"
theme.layout_dwindle         = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/layouts/dwindle.png"

theme.awesome_icon           = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/awesome-icon.png"

-- from default for now...
theme.menu_submenu_icon     = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/submenu.png"
theme.taglist_squares_sel   = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/taglist/squarefw.png"
theme.taglist_squares_unsel = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/taglist/squarew.png"

-- MISC
theme.wallpaper             = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/sky-background.png"
theme.taglist_squares       = "true"
theme.titlebar_close_button = "true"
theme.menu_height           = 15
theme.menu_width            = 100

-- Define the image to load
theme.titlebar_close_button_normal = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/close_normal.png"
theme.titlebar_close_button_focus = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/close_focus.png"

theme.titlebar_ontop_button_normal_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/ontop_normal_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_ontop_button_focus_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/ontop_focus_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_ontop_button_normal_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/ontop_normal_active.png"
theme.titlebar_ontop_button_focus_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/ontop_focus_active.png"

theme.titlebar_sticky_button_normal_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/sticky_normal_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_sticky_button_focus_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/sticky_focus_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_sticky_button_normal_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/sticky_normal_active.png"
theme.titlebar_sticky_button_focus_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/sticky_focus_active.png"

theme.titlebar_floating_button_normal_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/floating_normal_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_floating_button_focus_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/floating_focus_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_floating_button_normal_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/floating_normal_active.png"
theme.titlebar_floating_button_focus_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/floating_focus_active.png"

theme.titlebar_maximized_button_normal_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/maximized_normal_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_maximized_button_focus_inactive = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/maximized_focus_inactive.png"
theme.titlebar_maximized_button_normal_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/maximized_normal_active.png"
theme.titlebar_maximized_button_focus_active = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/titlebar/maximized_focus_active.png"

return theme
-- vim: filetype=lua:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:textwidth=80

Last edited by justanotheruser (2015-10-02 08:42:55)

justanotheruser · 2015-10-02 07:17:25

Sorry the code tags for highlighting or bold are not working for some reason. But this is the part of rc.lua that I have edited.

[b][color=red]
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/sky/theme.lua")
[/color][/b]

suija · 2015-10-02 10:07:05

In your rc.lua you have 2 entries for setting theme, remove the first one

beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/sky/theme.lua")

and at the secon one just use the full theme location like it is already doing there

-- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")

if you put the theme dir in your .config/awesome it would be:

-- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
beautiful.init("~/.config/awesome/themes/sky/theme.lua")

for the sky theme, then you might have to edit paths in the theme.lua if you change anything, because in the default themes like sky it searches for stuff at /usr/share/awesome/... rather than ~/.config/awesome/...

Also after changes you can run "awesome -k" to see if there is problem with the syntax before restarting awesome.

Last edited by suija (2015-10-02 10:20:11)

esa · 2015-10-02 10:29:53

Since the error appears on the 2nd line of your rc.lua, i'd assume its the reading of the file.... somehow...

I didnt know that gears was automaticly installed in /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears, however, vicious might be installed manualy, or commented out, but these are my loading lines, which work without issue:

-- Standard awesome library
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
--FreeDesktop -- TAKES AGES TO LOAD ~~ 5-9 secs ! __ and without less dependencies
--require('freedesktop.utils')
--require('freedesktop.menu')
--freedesktop.utils.icon_theme = 'tango'
--Vicious + Widgets 
vicious = require("vicious")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")

For the theme, my line looks like:

-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
	--beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/gray/theme.lua")
	beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/sea/theme.lua")

Unlike Suijia, i do like to use the internal use of getdir(config), to get the absolute path dynmaicly, and dont have to change that for every single entry... (eg: when shareing your theme with friends)
But either way, i recomend to use themes, specialy when modified, only from the home config, and not put them as fallback for the system (eg: /usr/share/awesome...)

In the end, it seems you have to edit the theme, not the rc.

hth

EDIT:
If you want/need to compare with another theme (maybe as help to troubleshoot), enjoy yourself: https://github.com/sri-arjuna/awesome-config

Last edited by esa (2015-10-02 10:34:54)

justanotheruser · 2015-10-02 11:05:36

I have just one thing to say to you guys. You guys are awesome!
Seems like awesome is taking only the second entry as the theme path. Not sure why but that seems to be the case. Once I removed the first entry it started changing. I need to check if removing the second entry and keeping the first entry also works.
But as of now things seem to be working just fine.

Thanks a lot guys!

P.S.: I'll just keep this thread open for just till tonight to see if things are working fine or else I will mark it solved if that can be done by me that is. Once again thank you very much!

suija · 2015-10-02 11:08:13

Ah i got it... First he says that none of the changes were taking place. And then he tries to run rc.lua file directly, which produces errors, then we try to find those supposed errors that don't exist. Your config has no errors. None of the changes to your theme are taking place because you have 2 entries for beautiful.init in your rc.lua, therefore the first one gets ignored/overwritten. The second one is as we pasted, a bit further down the file, below "-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers."

[EDIT] yeah a bit late to the party.

Last edited by suija (2015-10-02 11:09:16)

justanotheruser · 2015-10-02 20:35:04

Yes, I guess that was the case. The change was being overwritten. Closing this topic now. Thanks a lot guys. Really starting to enjoy Arch now!

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