awesome-client

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Langue: en

Version: 02/15/2008 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface

SYNOPSIS

awesome-client

DESCRIPTION

awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome via a socket located in the users's HOME directory.

USAGE

To determine which socket is to be used, it read the DISPLAY environment variable. awesome-client read commands from standard input.

When you pipe multiple lines into awesome-client, an empty line will flush already collected lines into awesome with an according immediate execution.

The command format is: screen_number command argument

For example, to change statusbar text on screen 0, you can do the following:

 echo 0 widget_tell <widget-id> Hello, world | awesome-client
 
To view tag number 3 on screen 1:
 echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome-client
 
To zoom focused window on screen 0:
 echo 0 client_zoom | awesome-client
 

SEE ALSO

awesome(1) awesomerc(1)

AUTHORS

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>

WWW

http://awesome.naquadah.org