Open some windows, select a layout which does something (=not floating) and
restart awesome. It's likely that it will crash during the shutdown.
The reason is that awesome cleans up various state before going down. This is
mostly all the lua state. However, drawin_wipe, which is called for cleaning up
after a drawin, dared to emit a sigal which then let various lua code run which
had access to objects which were already destroyed.
Various bad things can happen this way, in this situation it was a crash when an
already-destroyed client was resized.
The fix is to move the signal out of drawin_wipe. It doesn't belong there
anyway. Instead, property::workarea should be emitted when the drawin's visible
property changes as this is when the workarea changes, too (screen_area_get()
only looks at visible drawins).
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
awesome
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awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
Building and installation
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After extracting the dist tarball, run:
make
This will create a build directory, run cmake in it and build awesome.
After building is finished, you can install:
make install # you might need root permissions
Running awesome
---------------
You can directly select awesome from your display manager. If not, you can
add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
or to .xsession to start awesome using your display manager:
exec awesome
In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
(This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
Configuration
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The configuration of awesome is done by creating a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua file.
An example configuration named "awesomerc.lua.in" is provided in the source.
Troubleshooting
---------------
In most systems any message printed by awesome (including warnings and errors)
are written to $HOME/.xsession-errors.
If awesome does not start or the configuration file is not producing the desired
results the user should examine this file to gain insight into the problem.
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