Arch Linux

shawnjgoff

Member

Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 14

Can't get awesome config to work.

I'm trying to set up Awesome and it's not applying my rc.lua for some reason. I copied the one in /etc/xdg/awesome/ to ~/.config/awesome/ and did some modifications. I restarted Awesome and that didn't work, then I restarted the computer, and it still doesn't have the new config.

You can see the rc.lua at http://sprunge.us/WMLX .  There is a diff from the original at http://sprunge.us/OZRV .

Any suggestions?

Vain

Member

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 179

Website

Re: Can't get awesome config to work.

Hi,

you can ask awesome to check your rc.lua for syntax errors:

awesome -k

That being said, with your config I get this:

rc.lua:60: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 55) near '{'
✘ Configuration file syntax error.

Have a look at „myawesomemenu", there's a comma missing at the end of line 59.

HTH.

---

Why "Open Source" misses the point of Free Software

shawnjgoff

Member

Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 14

Re: Can't get awesome config to work.

Ah, yes! I'm glad there is a checker. I was wondering how I could test the thing. Thanks.

Last edited by shawnjgoff (2010-07-05 00:39:55)