awesome-launch

awesome-launch is a library for Awesome window manager that provides functions to spawn clients with single instance IDs using wm-launch.

Dependencies

• uuid rock
• wm-launch

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/jcrd/awesome-launch.git
$ cd awesome-launch
$ luarocks make --local rockspec/awesome-launch-devel-1.rockspec

Usage

Require the library:

local launch = require("awesome-launch")

Now spawn a client:

launch.spawn("xterm", {id="xterm1"})

The new client will have these properties set:

• single_instance_id = "xterm1"
• cmdline = "xterm"

See the API documentation for descriptions of all functions.

Workspaces

Require the library:

local ws = require("awesome-launch.workspace")

Add a new workspace:

ws.add("code", {
  pwd = "/home/user/code",
  clients = {
    "xterm -e vim",
    {"qutebrowser", {factory="qutebrowser"}},
  }
})

A new tag named code will be created with the working directory and clients listed above.

Widget

A launchbar widget is provided to visualize pending clients.

Customize the launchbar:

launch.widget.color = beautiful.fg_focus

Create a new launchbar for the given screen:

screen.connect_signal("request::desktop_decoration", function (s)
  ...
  s.launchbar = launch.widget.launchbar {
    screen = s,
  }
  s.mywibox:setup {
    ...
    s.launchbar,
    ...
  }
end)

Command-line client

awesome-launch is a wrapper around awesome-client that can be used to launch clients from the command line with single instance IDs tracked by Awesome.

Usage

usage: awesome-launch [options] COMMAND...

options:
  -h          Show help message
  -j          Launch with firejail
  -f FACTORY  Launch via a window factory
  -i ID       The single instance ID to use
  -s          Spawn if not already running
  -r          Raise or spawn

Enable use of awesome-client by including the following in rc.lua:

require("awful.remote")

If installed via luarocks, ensure awesome-launch's location is in your PATH.

License

awesome-launch is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (see LICENSE).