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Lightweight tiling window manager combining tiling and floating. Highly extensible through the Lua programming language.

Awesome is a lightweight tiling window manager, originally forked from dwm, but focusing on user-customizability through external configuration files. In later versions, the Lua programming language is used to configure and extend Awesome.

Awesome is compatible with a variety of freedesktop.org standards (such as the system tray) and has several widget libraries. Only the keyboard is needed to control Awesome, but mouse support is integrated throughout.

Awesome combines floating and tiling, making it a popular choice for users seeking to transition from floating to tiling window managers. A floating layout is available and users can choose to float windows, dynamically and through configuration.

The Ubuntu package for Awesome will install a session in lightdm and has a user-friendly default configuration which can quickly be made usable through the use of XFCE or Gnome packages (like xfce4-power-manager and nm-applet).

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Brightness control on Awesome windowing manager

I have just installed Awesome WM and I have no options to change the screen brightness, and also its shortcut doesn't working. Any one can help?
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How do I apply themes to gtk applications when I'm using Awesome WM?

No matter what I use, e.g. gtk-ctheme, and the other apps availible in the repos, gtk applications running under Awesome WM stay ugly. The same apps look fine when I use unity. Any thoughts?
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What is the gnome command for the battery applet?

It used to be gnome-power-manager or something of that sort, but now I can't seem to find it. When I run gnome-session from within awesome, it loads all the applets, i.e. nm-applet and the keyboard layout switcher, yet it doesn't load the battery…
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How to change decimal comma to decimal period in numpad?

How to change the decimal comma ',' to decimal period '.' in the numeric pad of the keyboard? I have used xmodmap but every time that I change my keyboard layout the changes (by xmodmap) are being reset.
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How do I Install and Use Awesome WM?

How do I use Awesome WM with Ubuntu 12.04? How do I invoke Awesome instead of Unity? Any dangers to trying to install it - in other words can I mess up my graphical shell?
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How to add keyboard shortcuts to Awesome WM

I've installed awesome3 wm on Ubuntu Server 10.04. I managed it to work properly now I could use some keyboard shortcuts to start programs like gmrun, firefox or whatever.
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How can I define startup applications with the Awesome Window Manager?

I've been reading as much as I can online, but none of it seems to work (i.e. changing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua). I've installed awesome window manager from the repos, and I log into it via GDM, and now I'd like to get it to start a few…
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How to have a volume control/widget in Awesome WM?

Simple question but hard answer, i searched around in Google a solution to make a dynamic widget to control and see the volume with Awesome Window manager but i can't find a working solution. Any one got a solution to this ?
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How can I permanently save a password-protected SSH key?

I am using Awesome Window Manager How can I permanently add private keys with password? Inspired by the answer here I have added the private keys in ~/.ssh/config Contents of ~/.ssh/config: IdentityFile 'private key full path' Permissions of…
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Is having Unity/awesome wm together possible? how can I do this?

I would like to have the menus, sidebar,the HUD, and the user friendliness ubuntu offers but I would like the window control and the window tiling capabilities of awesome together. Google has not helped me much in my search. Is this possible? how…
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How to install the latest awesome window manager?

How do I install the latest awesome window manager on Ubuntu? For example, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS contains awesome 3.5.6 Ubuntu 16.10 contains awesome 3.5.9 but the latest release as of now is 4.0.
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How to add 'awesome' selection in LightDM?

I installed awesome using apt-get, and after installation finished, I logged out to lightdm. But there is no selection for awesome, only Unity and subtle (since I recently installed subtle). What should I do, in order to make awesome selection is…
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Recommended auto-mounter for tiling window managers?

What is the recommended way to automatically mount usb drives, optical media, hard drives, etc... with a tiling window manager on Ubuntu? I am a big fan of tiling window managers, but I always look like a damn fool whenever someone walks up to me…
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Ubuntu 18 - Switching window manager

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, and want to try the Awesome window manager. I installed it with sudo apt install awesome. How can I switch between GNOME and Awesome? I found this answer, but I can't see how to "log out, choose the one you want, and log…
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Fonts in menu are larger than they should be under Awesome WM

I upgraded to oneiric ocelot, running awesome wm. Everything works, more or less, fine but one thing I've noticed is that now my menu fonts and my menu symbols are larger than I'd like them to be. I used to set them in font settings, but now (for…
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