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awesome-client(1)
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NAME
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awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface
SYNOPSIS
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awesome-client
DESCRIPTION
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awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome
via a socket located in the users's HOME directory.
USAGE
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To determine which socket is to be used, it read the DISPLAY environment variable.
awesome-client read 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 statusbar text on screen 0, you can do the following:
echo 0 widget_tell <widget-id> Hello, world | 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
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awesome(1) awesomerc(1)
AUTHORS
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Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
WWW
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http://awesome.naquadah.org