NAME¶

awesome-client - awesome window manager remote execution

SYNOPSIS¶

awesome-client [-h|--help] [command [command...]]

DESCRIPTION¶

awesome-client is a remote command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome via D-Bus, allowing remote execution of Lua code.

USAGE¶

awesome-client reads commands passed on the command line or from standard input and sends them via D-Bus to awesome. If rlwrap is installed, it will be used to provide a readline command line interface.

The awful.remote module has to be loaded if you want this command to work.

EXAMPLES¶

$ awesome-client 'return 1+1, "Hello, world"\


   double 2


   string "Hello, world"
# The following does not return anything on the command line,
# but will show a notification.
$ awesome-client '
> naughty = require("naughty")
> naughty.notify({
> title="CLI Notification",
> text="This is a notification sent from the command line!"})
> '
# Entering read-eval-print-loop mode
# This mode will send every line to awesome, exactly the same as passing
# multiple commands on the command line.
$ awesome-client
awesome# return 1+1


   double 2
awesome# return 1+1, "Hello, world"


   double 2


   string "Hello, world"
awesome#

SEE ALSO¶

awesome(1) awesomerc(5)

AUTHORS¶

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>

WWW¶

<https://awesomewm.org>