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mikefot
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 Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:57 pm Post subject: problem getting awesome to see terminal other than xterm... |
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Dear All,
I am running gentoo stable on an amd64 kaveri box.
I recently installed window manager.
It fires up OK and I can run libreoffice and firefox in it etc.
It creates the xterm terminal correctly at the prompt etc.
But if you change the file entry from to e.g. | Code: | | terminal = "terminology" |
or | Code: | | terminal = "alacritty" |
those terminals do not appear using those keystrokes.
Do I need to add a special lua command to the rc.lua file?
Comments appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill |
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kajzer
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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AFAIK it needs ' not " , like
Been awhile since I used awesome but I just looked at my rc.lua and it was like that, different terminal but that doesn't matter.
btw what happens if you run terminology from xterm, does it open ? |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for the reply.
If you enter into the xterm terminal then you get an extra terminal appearing running .
If you do the command and then enter alacritty at the top of the screen you will create a new terminal window running alacritty.
It also works with .
works well to fire up and .
Perhaps I should run with it and forget the other commands.
I am doing OK with it so far.
Regards
MF
PS The reason why I switched from to is because I hada problem with menu font size. The font size is already bigger in awesome for
some reason or other and I think it should be much easier to get things like or other gnome based tools to work under awesome than i3 and tweak the menu fonts. |
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Proinsias
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Not used awesome for a while either, been on i3. I emerged it on amd64 stable, checked the mod+return opened an xterm then copied over the rc.lua, changed xterm to st, keeping the "" double quotes from the /etc/xdg example and it works just fine. Emerged terminology just to double check, as st was build outside of emerge, and works fine too.
Maybe awesome -k to check the config file, or a fresh config? |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for the response again.
I ran awesome again. says the config file is OK.
Having in there or | Code: | | "/usr/bin/terminology" |
in the | Code: | | rc.lua default terminal |
entry now results in being fired up.
This is making me wonder if the start up file in or wherever it is located is being used not the copy
I put in | Code: | | /home/mikef/.config |
(is that the correct location for it?),
Also, when I run the first time nothing happens.
But when I run it again the second time then the terminal window appears.
Comments appreciated on this.
Regards
MF
PS
The | Code: | | /home/mikef/.config |
directory looks like this:
| Code: | mikef@storm ~/.config $ ls -la
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 11 mikef mikef 4096 Oct 28 16:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 mikef mikef 4096 Oct 28 16:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 mikef mikef 4096 May 2 17:02 alacritty
drwxr-xr-x 2 mikef mikef 4096 Oct 26 17:31 dconf
drwx------ 2 mikef mikef 4096 Oct 26 16:33 gconf
drwx------ 2 mikef mikef 4096 May 3 18:12 gtk-3.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 mikef mikef 4096 May 2 17:18 i3
drwxr-xr-x 3 mikef mikef 4096 May 3 18:11 libreoffice
drwx------ 2 mikef mikef 4096 Oct 27 16:58 pulse
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22606 Oct 28 16:21 rc.lua
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22597 Oct 26 16:34 rc.lua~
drwxr-xr-x 3 mikef mikef 4096 May 3 14:51 terminology
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 19:31 theme
mikef@storm ~/.config $ |
Does that look OK? |
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Proinsias
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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My rc.lua is in ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
You can specify a config with | Code: | | awesome -c /path/to/rc.lua |
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