Re: [ANNOUNCE] awesome 3.5.2 released

2013-10-13 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Thanks :) I love awesome.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] awesome 3.5-rc1 released (was: [ANNOUNCE] awesome 3.4-rc1 released)

2012-11-25 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Thanks a lot guys :)

Re: awesome does not auto scale to full screen size when I enter full screen mode in vmware workstation

2012-09-09 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
It's likely vmtoolsd isn't running? I can't recall exactly when/how it gets started but I recall in the past having to configure it myself. eg. ✗ cat ~/.xprofile #!/bin/sh export BROWSER=google-chrome /usr/bin/vmware-user /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps -option lv3:ralt_alt

Re: [ANNOUNCE] awesome 3.4.13 released

2012-07-15 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Juliae, Uli and co Thanks a lot!

Re: Awesome GIT unstable on lua 5.1, fine on 5.2

2012-07-07 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
> > P.S.: +1 for automatic restarts on crashes, everyone should have that code > in > their .xsession. I'm actually still using lightdm How do you set up this automatic restart? Some kind of process monitor daemon?

Re: Awesome GIT unstable on lua 5.1, fine on 5.2

2012-07-07 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
I'm on ubuntu 12.04, with some cherry picked quantal packages (which could be the culprit?) To compile it with 5.2 I had to set some CMake variable with a path to the lua .so file to use ... It all *seems* to work ... I haven't got the time (or heart) to mess with it just this moment :) I'll g

Awesome GIT unstable on lua 5.1, fine on 5.2

2012-07-07 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Just a quick headsup that awesome is unstable against lua5.1 Compiled against: commit 29b09cf7da401f13335eb8f8ebb128c80454ecdd Date: Fri Jul 6 13:37:58 2012 +0200 I was periodically losing keyboard and mouse, along with the wibox up the top of the screen I looked in the awesome log and it ha

Re: Greetings, Thanks & Questions: How to main client focus in between screen focusing?

2012-07-02 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
@Bryan Thanks for the tip :) I'm a bit of a baby when it comes to linux, but had a play with console mode bootup today, disabling lightdm. Will try that tee trick tomorrow. @Uli Thanks for clearing that up :) I didn't quite realise there was some voodoo going on with the mouse pointer moving

Re: Greetings, Thanks & Questions: How to main client focus in between screen focusing?

2012-07-02 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Good hunch :) While experimenting with the rc.lua I'd set the wibox to `position = "bottom"` I changed it back and now it works as intended. Anyway, I'm fine with the wibox at the top but I'm wondering why having it at the bottom has that effect? >> By default it's logged by your display manage

Greetings, Thanks & Questions: How to main client focus in between screen focusing?

2012-07-01 Thread Nicholas Dudfield
Greetings all. Firstly, I must give thanks to all the creators of this wonderful piece of software. Really. Thanks :) I've been trying out awesome. I'm looking forward to learning lua and really scripting my workflows. It's the first tiling window manager I've used and I quite like it. However,