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manpages: fix awesome-client to talk about D-Bus 

Signed-off-by: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
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NAME
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awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface
awesome-client - awesome window manager remote execution
SYNOPSIS
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@ -14,18 +14,15 @@ 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.
It permits to execute Lua code remotely.
awesome-client is a remote command line interface to awesome.
It communicates with awesome via D-Bus. It permits to execute Lua code remotely.
USAGE
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To determine which socket is to be used, it reads the DISPLAY environment variable.
awesome-client reads 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.
awesome-client reads commands from standard input and send via D-Bus to awesome.
If 'rlwrap' is installed, it will be used to provide a readline command line interface.
The 'awful.remote' module has to be loaded if you want this command to work.
SEE ALSO
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