When an application loses its connection to the X11 server, all the windows in
its save-set are saved by reparenting them back to their closest ancestor. Also,
to they are unconditionally mapped. This second property is exactly what we
need: All windows should be in mapped state, else the next window manager which
starts up won't be managing them.
This should fix all bugs where clients where lost due to a restart, yay! :)
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
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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
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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.