This is the man page of awesome-client version 2.3.4, compatible with all versions 2.3.x. It can also be used for a big part with previous versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x, but you may read their own man pages for some differences they have.

Contents 1 AWESOME-CLIENT 1.1 NAME 1.2 SYNOPSIS 1.3 DESCRIPTION 1.4 USAGE 1.5 SEE ALSO 1.6 AUTHORS 1.7 WWW 1.8 NOTES

AWESOME-CLIENT

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NAME

awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface

SYNOPSIS

awesome-client

DESCRIPTION

awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome via a socket located in the users's HOME directory.

USAGE

To determine which socket is to be used, it reads the DISPLAY environment variable. awesome-client reads commands from standard input.

When you pipe multiple lines into awesome-client, an empty line will flush already collected lines into awesome with an according immediate execution.

The command format is: screen_number command argument

For example, to change a statusbar textbox text on screen 0, you can do the following:

echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <textbox-name> text Hello, world | awesome-client

To change an iconbox image on screen 1, you can do the following:

echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <iconbox-name> image /home/user/image.jpg | awesome-client

To view tag number 3 on screen 1:

echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome-client

To zoom focused window on screen 0:

echo 0 client_zoom | awesome-client

SEE ALSO

awesome(1) awesomerc(5)

AUTHORS

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info[1]>

WWW

http://awesome.naquadah.org

NOTES

1. julien@danjou.info

mailto:julien@danjou.info