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sarthax

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Registered: 2017-02-14

Posts: 1

recent problems with awesome window manager mypromptbox

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here so please let me know if I should change or add something.

Problem:
Attempting to use mypromptbox through "modkey"+"r" key shortcut results in an error message:
/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua:264: attempt to index a nil value (field '?')

The lines 263-264 from my rc.lua

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

I haven't modified my rc.lua and I don't use mypromptbox very often so I'm not sure what action I took to cause it to break. My full rc.lua is here:
Pastebin

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Last edited by sarthax (2017-02-15 02:38:45)

pfdint

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Registered: 2013-11-18

Posts: 43

Re: recent problems with awesome window manager mypromptbox

Similar problem, all of rc.lua is broken after update.
attempt to index a nil value (field '?')
what do?
I don't have awful, so this doesn't help http://www.dahlgren.work/linux/2017/01/ … wesome-Wm/
I don't know what promptbox is, is that the native widget that comes up for mod4+r? Because that's broken, too, yes.

aw, I found some stuff, https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/documenta … ps.md.html

ok, I did:

back up your old rc.lua
overwrite the rc.lua with the new default from /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
make changes to your new rc.lua

surprise, all clients have titlebars now
to disable that, look for

-- Add title bars to normal clients and dialogs
{ rule_any = {type = { "normal", "dialog" }
  }, properties = { titlebars_enabled = true }
},

and change true to false

Last edited by pfdint (2017-03-03 20:18:43)

bornofflame

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Registered: 2017-01-19

Posts: 2

Re: recent problems with awesome window manager mypromptbox

Thanks for the info, pfdint. I had the same problem with awesome and was wondering what happened. Much appreciated!