awesome/awesomerc.5.txt

awesomerc(5)
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NAME
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awesomerc - Configuration file for the awesome window manager

SYNOPSIS
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None.

DESCRIPTION
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The *awesomerc* file contains configuration informations for *awesome*. It can
be used to configure the behaviour and look of awesome in a variety of ways.
It can be assimilated as a Lua program/script run at startup by awesome.
Therefore, it should use the awesome Lua API described in the API section.
This file is read at startup.

AWESOME LUA API
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Documentation for the Lua API can be found in the luadoc directory.

COLORS FORMAT
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Colors format in *awesome* are either standard X color names
(blue, darkblue, lightred, etc) or hexadecimal formatted colors (#rrggbb).
By using hexadecimal format, you can also specifies an alpha channel:
that means that #00ff00 will draw pure green, but #00ff00aa will set the
alpha channel to `aa' and will blend the green with the color under it.

TEXT FORMAT
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You can use/mix pango-markup and awesome-markup on text properties.
A pango-markup example: "<span weight=\'bold\' foreground=\'#336699\'>...</span>".
An awesome-markup example: "<text align=\'right\'>...</text>".

WIDGETS
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The current list of available widget is:

- graph
- progressbar
- taglist
- tasklist
- textbox
- systray

Each widget as its own set of properties, described below, that can bet modified with the set()
method.

SEE ALSO
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awesome(1) awesome-client(1)

AUTHORS
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This man page was written by Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>.

WWW
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http://awesome.naquadah.org