Symbolic tag names



Try using unicode names for your tags in rc.lua:

tags = { -- names = { "☠", "⌥", "✇", "⌤", "⍜", "✣", "⌨", "⌘", "☕" }, names = { "☭", "⌥", "✇", "⌤", "☼", "⌘" }, layout = { layouts[2], layouts[2], layouts[2], layouts[2], layouts[2], layouts[2] } }

Another Way
The above didn't work for me in Awesome 3.4.9. This did:

-- {{{ Tags -- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags. tags = {}

for s = 1, screen.count do   -- Each screen has its own tag table. tags[s] = awful.tag({ "♨", "⌨", "⚡", "✉", "☕", "❁", "☃", "☄", "⚢" }, s, layouts[1]) -- tags[s] = awful.tag({ "➊", "➋", "➌", "➍", "➎", "➏", "➐", "➑", "➒"  }, s, layouts[1]) -- these are boring but I like them. end

Also, I found the images I'd chosen to be hard to see with my current font settings. So I edited theme.lua as well to make the taglist bigger:

-- this is my default font theme.font     = "Inconsolata Medium 10" -- make tag list bigger theme.taglist_font = "Inconsolata Medium 14"