Awesome support

[erikdubois]

Awesome does not change with this code.

if [[ "$DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID" == "awesome"* ]]; then
	echo "local gears = require(\"gears\") gears.wallpaper.maximized(\"$1\", s, true)" | awesome-client
fi

This is the result if we type in the environement variable

echo $DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID
give this as result
awesome/urxvt/958-1-ArcoLinuxB_TIME407372

But I have changed this code to include awesome and that works - noitice the word awesome in the first line.

SIMPLE_WMS=("awesome" "bspwm" "dwm" "herbstluftwm" "i3" "i3-with-shmlog" "jwm" "openbox" "qtile" "xmonad")
if [[ " ${SIMPLE_WMS[*]} " = *" $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP "* || " ${SIMPLE_WMS[*]} " = *" $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP "* ||
      " ${SIMPLE_WMS[*]} " = *" $DESKTOP_SESSION "* ]]; then
	if command -v "feh" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        feh --bg-fill "$WP" 2> /dev/null
    elif command -v "nitrogen" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        nitrogen --set-zoom-fill --save "$WP" 2> /dev/null
    fi
fi

Could you add the word awesome there?

[jlu5]

For DEs and WMs that support changing the wallpaper natively, we should be using that functionality over feh or nitrogen. What happens when you run the existing code for Awesome in a terminal? (I'm assuming that this code is correct and worked at some point)

[arcolinuxz]

Nothing happens. Code is not applied and gears is loaded.
Could you give the exact code I need to copy/paste to test?

[jlu5]

This is what the current code looks like. The $1 should be replaced with the path to your wallpaper image:

echo "local gears = require(\"gears\") gears.wallpaper.maximized(\"$1\", s, true)" | awesome-client

[niknah]

I don't have DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID on mine. I am using Arch linux + awesome

On my computer, I have this in the environment...
DESKTOP_SESSION=awesome
GDMSESSION=awesome
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=awesome

This works for me... (changed the call to maximized to "nil") to change it for all screens.

if [[ "$XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP" == "awesome" ]]; then
        echo "local gears = require(\"gears\") gears.wallpaper.maximized(\"$1\", nil)" | awesome-client
fi