Problems with xbmc and awesome...

Sova007 · 2009-08-13 11:27:52

Hello arch users, i need some help for a problem with an application xbmc (it's a media center) and my tiling wm awesome,
i make autorun programs and set property for tags and layouts; everytime i boot and start my wm xbmc comes to float and not in the right tag...
if aybody could help, it would be a pleasure!!!!
see ya everybody and thanks truly for the arch community!!!!!
long life for ARCHLINUX;):lol::D:)

jelly · 2009-08-13 12:45:39

well we can't help you without viewing your rc.lua or wathever awesome config

Sova007 · 2009-08-13 13:48:50

ok thanks for replying, my rc.lua

-- Standard awesome library
require("awful")
-- Theme handling library
require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
require("naughty")

-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
-- The default is a dark theme
theme_path = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua"
-- Uncommment this for a lighter theme
-- theme_path = "/usr/share/awesome/themes/sky/theme.lua"

-- Actually load theme
beautiful.init(theme_path)

-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "terminator"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vim"
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.
layouts =
{
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.max,
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
awful.layout.suit.magnifier,
awful.layout.suit.floating
}

-- Table of clients that should be set floating. The index may be either
-- the application class or instance. The instance is useful when running
-- a console app in a terminal like (Music on Console)
-- xterm -name mocp -e mocp
floatapps =
{
-- by class
-- ["MPlayer"] = true,
-- ["pinentry"] = true,
-- ["gimp"] = true,

-- by instance
-- ["mocp"] = true
}

-- Applications to be moved to a pre-defined tag by class or instance.
-- Use the screen and tags indices.
apptags =
{
["geany"] = { screen = 1, tag = 2 },
["Firefox"] = { screen = 1, tag = 3 },
["pcmanfm"] = { screen = 1, tag = 4 },
["Pidgin"] = { screen = 1, tag = 5 },
-- ["xbmc"] = { screen = 1, tag = 6 },
}

-- Define if we want to use titlebar on all applications.
use_titlebar = false
-- }}}

-- {{{ Tags
-- Define tags table.
tags = {}
tags.settings = {
{ name = "Terminal", layout = layouts[4], },
{ name = "Dev", layout = layouts[1], },
{ name = "Web", layout = layouts[3], },
{ name = "Files", layout = layouts[1], },
{ name = "Pidgin", layout = layouts[1], },
{ name = "Media Center", layout = layouts[7], },
{ name = "Others", layout = layouts[7], },
}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = {}
-- Create tags per screen.
-- for tagnumber = 1, 7 do
-- tags[s][tagnumber] = tag(tagnumber)
for i, v in ipairs(tags.settings) do
-- Add tags to screen one by one
tags[s][i] = tag(v.name)
tags[s][i].screen = s
-- tags[s][tagnumber].screen = s
-- awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][tagnumber])
awful.tag.setproperty(tags[s][i], "layout", v.layout)
awful.tag.setproperty(tags[s][i], "mwfact", v.mwfact)
end
-- I'm sure you want to see at least one tag.
tags[s][1].selected = true
end
-- }}}

-- Autorun programs
autorun = true
autorunApps =
{
"geany",
"firefox",
"pcmanfm",
"pidgin",
-- "xbmc",
}
if autorun then
for app = 1, #autorunApps do
awful.util.spawn(autorunApps[app])
end
end

-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textbox widget
mytextbox = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "right" })
-- Set the default text in textbox
mytextbox.text = "<b><small> " .. awesome.release .. " </small></b>"

-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/rc.lua" },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
}

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

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

-- Create a systray
mysystray = widget({ type = "systray", align = "right" })

-- 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, function (tag) tag.selected = not tag.selected end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ 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({ align = "left" })
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = widget({ type = "imagebox", align = "right" })
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.label.all, mytaglist.buttons)

-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(function(c)
return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s)
end, mytasklist.buttons)

-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = wibox({ position = "top", fg = beautiful.fg_normal, bg = beautiful.bg_normal })
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
mywibox[s].widgets = { mylauncher,
mytaglist[s],
mytasklist[s],
mypromptbox[s],
mytextbox,
mylayoutbox[s],
s == 1 and mysystray or nil }
mywibox[s].screen = s
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(true) 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( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus(-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),

-- 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)
)

-- Client awful tagging: this is useful to tag some clients and then do stuff like move to tag on them
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, "Shift" }, "r", function (c) c:redraw() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "t", awful.client.togglemarked),
awful.key({ modkey,}, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end)
)

-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
keynumber = 0
for s = 1, screen.count() do
keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber));
end

for i = 1, keynumber do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
tags[screen][i].selected = not tags[screen][i].selected
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, i,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, i,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "F" .. i,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
for k, c in pairs(awful.client.getmarked()) do
awful.client.movetotag(tags[screen][i], c)
end
end
end))
end

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

-- {{{ Hooks
-- Hook function to execute when focusing a client.
awful.hooks.focus.register(function (c)
if not awful.client.ismarked(c) then
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
end
end)

-- Hook function to execute when unfocusing a client.
awful.hooks.unfocus.register(function (c)
if not awful.client.ismarked(c) then
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal
end
end)

-- Hook function to execute when marking a client
awful.hooks.marked.register(function (c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_marked
end)

-- Hook function to execute when unmarking a client.
awful.hooks.unmarked.register(function (c)
c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus
end)

-- Hook function to execute when the mouse enters a client.
awful.hooks.mouse_enter.register(function (c)
-- Sloppy focus, but disabled for magnifier layout
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)

-- Hook function to execute when a new client appears.
awful.hooks.manage.register(function (c, startup)
-- If we are not managing this application at startup,
-- move it to the screen where the mouse is.
-- We only do it for filtered windows (i.e. no dock, etc).
if not startup and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
c.screen = mouse.screen
end

if use_titlebar then
-- Add a titlebar
awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
end
-- Add mouse bindings
c:buttons(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)
))
-- New client may not receive focus
-- if they're not focusable, so set border anyway.
c.border_width = beautiful.border_width
c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal

-- Check if the application should be floating.
local cls = c.class
local inst = c.instance
if floatapps[cls] ~= nil then
awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[cls])
elseif floatapps[inst] ~= nil then
awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[inst])
end

-- Check application->screen/tag mappings.
local target
if apptags[cls] then
target = apptags[cls]
elseif apptags[inst] then
target = apptags[inst]
end
if target then
c.screen = target.screen
awful.client.movetotag(tags[target.screen][target.tag], c)
end

-- Do this after tag mapping, so you don't see it on the wrong tag for a split second.
client.focus = c

-- Set key bindings
c:keys(clientkeys)

-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)

-- Honor size hints: if you want to drop the gaps between windows, set this to false.
-- c.size_hints_honor = false
end)

-- Hook function to execute when arranging the screen.
-- (tag switch, new client, etc)
awful.hooks.arrange.register(function (screen)
local layout = awful.layout.getname(awful.layout.get(screen))
if layout and beautiful["layout_" ..layout] then
mylayoutbox[screen].image = image(beautiful["layout_" .. layout])
else
mylayoutbox[screen].image = nil
end

-- Give focus to the latest client in history if no window has focus
-- or if the current window is a desktop or a dock one.
if not client.focus then
local c = awful.client.focus.history.get(screen, 0)
if c then client.focus = c end
end
end)

-- Hook called every minute
awful.hooks.timer.register(60, function ()
mytextbox.text = os.date(" %a %b %d, %H:%M ")
end)
-- }}}

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#1 2009-08-13 11:27:52

Problems with xbmc and awesome...

#2 2009-08-13 12:45:39

Re: Problems with xbmc and awesome...

#3 2009-08-13 13:48:50

Re: Problems with xbmc and awesome...

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