AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)NAMEawesome2-client - awesome2 window manager command line interface
SYNOPSISawesome2-clientDESCRIPTIONawesome2-client is the command line interface to awesome2. It
communicates with awesome2 via a socket located in the users’s HOME
directory.
USAGE
To determine which socket is to be used, it reads the DISPLAY
environment variable. awesome2-client reads commands from standard
input.
When you pipe multiple lines into awesome2-client, an empty line will
flush already collected lines into awesome2 with an according immediate
execution.
The command format is: screen_number command argument
For example, to change a statusbar textbox text on screen 0, you can do
the following:
echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <textbox-name> text Hello, world | awesome2-client
To change an iconbox image on screen 1, you can do the following:
echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <iconbox-name> image /home/user/image.jpg | awesome2-client
To view tag number 3 on screen 1:
echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome2-client
To zoom focused window on screen 0:
echo 0 client_zoom | awesome2-clientSEE ALSOawesome2(1)awesome2rc(5)AUTHORS
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info[1]>
WWW
http://awesome2.naquadah.org
NOTES
1. julien@danjou.info
mailto:julien@danjou.info
02/19/2016 AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)