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natostanco

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Registered: 2008-01-07

Posts: 126

awesome wm mod+r and aliases

Hello, I have a .bashrc where I have set some aliases, but these don't work when I run mod+r command from awesome wm, how can I fix this?

koomi

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Registered: 2010-09-26

Posts: 17

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

This doesn't work because awful.util.spawn doesn't spawn a shell and it won't work with awful.util.spawn_with_shell because the shell has to be interactive to check for aliases.
But you could either spawn a shell which executes a command in interactive mode, e.g. with bash 'bash -i -c "alias"', or you use functions instead of aliases and use awful.util.spawn_with_shell (didn't try this, not sure it works).

natostanco

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Registered: 2008-01-07

Posts: 126

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

what i have done so far is adding a script for every alias in /bin/ directory

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

Posts: 1,239

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Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

Have awesome call somthing like this:

#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_aliases
eval "$@"

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natostanco

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Registered: 2008-01-07

Posts: 126

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

can you explain better? thanks

Kooothor

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From: Paname

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 228

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

I'm necroposting because this is the top result on Google and it is not solved.

Here is a solution to have working aliases in awesome run prompt :

edit your ~/.xinitrc, and just before the «exec awesome»
add something like :
source ~/.zshrc if you use zsh
or
source ~/.bashrc

You will then have your $PATH and your aliases working in the Run prompt

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geekmiki

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 72

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

Hi,

I tried your solution by placing source ~/.bashrc in .xinitrc but I'm still unable to use my aliases with mod+r.

Anything else I could try to get aliases working?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,209

Re: awesome wm mod+r and aliases

geekmiki,
Hey, I am going to go ahead and close this thread.  It is just too old.

Please feel free to start a new thread, state your problem and, if you feel this thread is relevant, go head and link back to this thread.

Thanks.

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