On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Ralf Van Bogaert wrote:

> I just found out about Awesome today and I'm interested in using it. I
> develop Lua/QT applications myself and I would like to integrate window
> manager functionality in my software. Is Awesome suited for this
> purpose?

No, it's a window manager itself. But I don't think you want to
integrate a window manager in an application which is not a window manager.

> I just installed it from the Ubuntu repositories (version 3.4.9 'Smack'). I
> use Kubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, on an Acer Aspire One netbook.
>
> However Awesome crashes on startup.
>
> Console output >
>
> ralf@Aspire:~$ Awesome
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
> W: awesome: xerror:809: X error: request=GrabKey, error=BadAccess
>
> Anybody able to help?

Well, you probably have another software running that grabbed some key
combination, so awesome cannot grab them too. It's not fatal, but some
keybinding won't work.

-- 
Julien Danjou

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