awesome-wm-furious

Awesome WM script for modal client (applications' windows) management.

screencast and complete doc comming soon

Features

modal keygrabber
cacth client mode (bring to focused tag)
dropdown mode (dropdown target client)
centralized configuration
multi-screen support
application oriented

ROR (Run On Raise)

Classic "run or raise" will focus the requested application if some matching exists. Else it will spawn that application on its default tag and screen.

Catch

This mode will move the requested application () to the focused tag, if some matching client exists. Else it will spawm the application to the focused tag.

Dropdown

Is a "dropdown" like mode that makes the target client sticky (vible on all tags), floating, and resized according to a given geometry (static for now). If a matching client exists, then it is used, otherwise the corresponding application is spawned. The dropdown client is plated on the focused tag.

Configuration

myappz = {}
myappz["f"] = { info="firefox", cmd="firefox", tag="1", screen=1, match="Firefox", type="instance" }

In the rc.lua

A sample rc.lua file is available for demo here. It is a slightly modified version of the default rc.lua file, with minimum requirements to make furious work.

More precisely, starting from classic rc.lua, you have to follow these steps to make furious work :

Add furious lib dependency :

require("furious")

Then switch global keys setting from classic to furious one :

-- Set keys
furious_init_global(globalkeys)
--root.keys(globalkeys) no more required

Finally, add furious client keys to rc clientkeys :

clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
    get_furious_clientkeys(),
    ................. 
-- }}}