• From: Germany
  • Registered: 2011-06-24
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Topic: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

I try to add a second statusbar for System-monitoring to awesome. I've been reading in the wiki and the vicious README quite a lot, but still there's something wrong with the widgets and/or wibox I created. When awesome starts/restarts it ignores the theme I set, but instead loads default configuration, actually the only thing it doesn't ignore from my rc.lua, are my tags (incl. names + layout). But it adds the 9 numbered default tags behind them. Key- and mousebindings, startup-apps etc. are all ignored. Even urxvt won't load .Xdefaults (yes I tried "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults"). 

awesome -k ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

tells me that the Syntax is correct.

I got the same symptoms when the path to an icon in my customized theme was wrong, so I guess something is wrong with either vicious or the widgets/wibox I created. It's most certainly the latter, but I can't figure out what exactly...

So here's my rc.lua: http://pastebin.com/KgJfma3X

I really hope somebody can help me...

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  • Registered: 2011-04-26
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Re: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

Doomicide wrote:

I try to add a second statusbar for System-monitoring to awesome. I've been reading in the wiki and the vicious README quite a lot, but still there's something wrong with the widgets and/or wibox I created. When awesome starts/restarts it ignores the theme I set, but instead loads default configuration, actually the only thing it doesn't ignore from my rc.lua, are my tags (incl. names + layout). But it adds the 9 numbered default tags behind them. Key- and mousebindings, startup-apps etc. are all ignored. Even urxvt won't load .Xdefaults (yes I tried "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults"). 

awesome -k ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

tells me that the Syntax is correct.

I got the same symptoms when the path to an icon in my customized theme was wrong, so I guess something is wrong with either vicious or the widgets/wibox I created. It's most certainly the latter, but I can't figure out what exactly...

So here's my rc.lua: http://pastebin.com/KgJfma3X

I really hope somebody can help me...

Some apps do not like

~./

It's just a thought but maybe the entire path may help...  I am not using awesome so I cannot test

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  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2011-06-24
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Re: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

VastOne wrote:

Some apps do not like

~./

It's just a thought but maybe the entire path may help...  I am not using awesome so I cannot test

Nope that's not the problem, same output with full path, but thanks anyway smile

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  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2011-06-24
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Re: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

Ok I commented the widgets one at a time and as soon as all are commented (incl. the  wibox) everything works find, but when one (doesn't matter which one) is uncommented again it stops working -.-

So can somebody have a look at my rc-file, in particular at the widgets part? Would be really nice smile

Last edited by Doomicide (2011-08-10 17:19:58)

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Re: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

Doomicide why not try dzen2

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Re: Not so awesome "awesome"-problem

@Doomcide

is vicious.widgets no vicious.widget wink

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