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After a conversation on IRC yesterday I came to the conclusion that the default value for many settings (usually nil or false), may not fit some non-insane workflows. Therefor, being to configure defaults for init, volatile and some other may be a very good thing after all.

This will break the API as settings.default_layout will turn into settings.tag.default.layout or something like that.

Hello,

recently I noticed that there are the predefined shortcuts in shortcuts.lua and started using them. In my rc.conf I have an tyrannical rule to add all terminals to one tag:

tyrannical.tags = {
    {
        name        = "term",
        init        = true, 
        exclusive   = true,
        class       = { "xterm", "urxvt", "URxvt", "XTerm" }
    },
...

Now I tried using the term_in_current_tag() and new_tag_with_term() functions. Unfortunately all terms will be moved to the "term" tag. I tried to prevent this behaviour in the term_in_current_tag() function with following statement:

local function term_in_current_tag()
    local s = capi.client.focus and capi.client.focus.screen or capi.mouse.screen
    local t = aw_tag.selected(s)
    if not t then return end
    aw_util.spawn(terminal,{intrusive=true,slave=true,tag=t})
end

But it doesn't working. Can you help here?

Thank you!

Hello.

First of all I'm sorry. I not familliar with lua enough, because awesome wm + tyrranical almost in standard config suits me almost perfect.

I suggest to add support for enumerating existing and new tags by this rule:

all tags names generated like this "index:name", where index is number which you should press in conjuction with modkey to select desired tag (i.e. modkey + 7), so we can have something like this: 1:term 2:im 3:www.

Here is scenario. Let's say I have setup mentioned before (3 tags - term, im and www present).Then let's say i insert a thumbdrive which causes pcmanfm to rise with contents of that drive, wich in turn causes awesome [through tyrannical] to create tag files. in proposed enhancement it would result to appear 4:files so i easily can switch between tags in 1 step

As a variation - numbers can appears only when user presses modkey or something along those lines.

My suggestion in poorely written code looks like this

• wrapper-function for adding tag:

 local function add_tag(params)
   local index, name, tag = unpack(params)
   awful.tag.add(index .. ':' .. name, tag)
   return index+1
 end

plus something like this for deleting tag with decreasing counter

• add index somewhere in init

local index = 1

• generic replacement all over tyrannical

- awful.tag.add(v.name,v)
+ index = add_tag(index, v.name, v)

So not all the clients end up in the same one when restarting awesome

Allow tyrannical to replace awful.spawn. It will allow to spawn with a Tyrannical property array or a tag

    tyrannical.spawn("command",{
       tag=awful.tag.getidx(2),
       floating=true,
   }

This is possible since awesome 3.5.3

Delete this please.

Can You provide a fully working example rc.lua

I tried to use your sample, i remove all the usage of config and util modules.
Add on a default rc.lua, and all i got was a wm with no wibox.

It would be handy to have luakit spawning (if not already) when i switch to "www" tag.

Is no_focus_stealing_out implemented anywhere? I do not see it doing anything, contrary to what the documentation claims.

I do not focus clients by other means, i.e. awful.rules or anything like that.

Can you please tag commits here to create releases? It would be handful for those who want to use "stable" snapshot only.

in latest commit it happens at line 80 of init.lua

git bisect points to 5a6c9ab as a cause of troubles

I'm trying to force a client to appear on a particular tag (e.g. when restarting awesome).

Here's what i tried:

awful.rules.rules = {
    -- All clients will match this rule.
    { rule = { },
      properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
                     border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
                     focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
                     keys = clientkeys,
                     buttons = clientbuttons } },
    -- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
    { rule = { class = "Iceweasel" },
      properties = { tag = awful.tag.gettags(mouse.screen)[3] },
    },
}

the problem with the corresponding (commented out) code in the example.rc.lua
is that there is no global variable "tags" that i can access.

The line awful.tag.gettags(mouse.screen)[3] seems not to to what i thought it
would. The client does however get caught by the rule.
Ideally, I could get the tag object by its name given in the mytags section.
How do i do that?
Thanks

Is it possible to add a standardtag, so that every client, wich does not mach any class property opens in that tag instead of creating a new one?

Can you get a 5.2 compatible version ?

System

• Proprietary NVidia drivers
• Awesome 3.5.1
• Tyrannical master
• Ubuntu 13.04

I've created a tag
{
name = "WWW",
init = true,
exclusive = true,
screen = 1,
clone_on = 2,
layout = awful.layout.suit.max, -- Use the max layout
class = {
"Opera" , "Firefox" , "Rekonq" , "Dillo" , "Arora",
"Chromium" , "nightly" , "minefield", "chromium-browser" }
} ,

A new tag is listed on both monitors.
I open firefox on WWW Screen 1 and it's all good.
I switch monitor 1 to a diff tag.
Switch monitor 2 to WWW expecting to to match what I just saw on monitor 1, however either nothing is display, or the windows flickers away really fast.
Now monitor 2 has glitched out and created a second WWW tag. It is now the only tag which displays firefox.
Switching to WWW on monitor does not display firefox.

I will test this on a different machine, I wonder if it has to do with Nvidia TwinView or something. Cloning sounds like a killer feature I just haven't got it to work yet.

eg
name = "www",
init = true,
layout = awful.layout.suit.max,
exec_once = { "luakit" }

When you switch to this tag at begining it works ok, but if you go to another tag and then back thje wibox does not highlight properly, only if you over your mouse on the wibox it updates.

To test https://github.com/masterkorp/Awesome-config-files/tree/tyranical
And run the xephyr script.

awesomeWM/awesome@04dee81

It is outdated and does not have all the cool keybindings

Also update the README.md to show the keybindings with links to the rc.lua

Hello!

I've installed the latest version of Tyrannical and tried it with master version of AWM (awesomeWM/awesome@ae96ed0827f) with default example.rc.lua and it didn't work for me properly. Upon startup I'm getting these error messages:

init.lua:156: attempt to compare userdata with number
init.lua:189: attempt to compare userdata with number

Ideas?

The current exec_once does not take into account the SNID for force a specific tag. A client can be launched in an arbitrary tag by accident

Is it possible to specify a list of layouts that are allowed for a specific tag.

It open firefox in no tag

Without tyrannical, when a client that is not focused receives a urgent bell, its tag becomes highlighted normally.
But when using tyrannical, the clients are not responding to the urgent bell signal anymore. Awful is managing a list of clients that received a urgent bell, but this list remains empty when tyrannical is loaded. I tried to reconnect the signal property::urgent to the clients without success.

I am using awesome 3.5.5

It should be done in tag.add, not everywhere in the code. This also create issues with external tags

I keep adding entries to the intrusive list.

These could probably all get matched using c.type ~= "normal".

See https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/objects/window.c#L191 (luaA_window_get_type).

I'm trying to make XMonad-like dual screen behavior, so i set "screen = 1" and "clone_on = 2" for every tag. After chosing tag [1] on second screen, with opened tag [1] on first screen, it should swap the active tags between first and second screens, but it's not. Actually, first screen becames empty, and then, after some tag switchings on second screen it turns on some tags (i have no idea why, i'm working only with second screen)

The example rc.lua says:

exclusive   = true,                   -- Refuse any other type of clients (by classes)
class       = { --Accept the following classes, refuse everything else (because of "exclusive=true")

When I have two different tags with exclusive set to true, and the same 'class', I get some strange behavior.

For example:
I have two "term" tags, "term 1" and "term 2", one in screen 1, and the other in screen 2. Both are exclusive and have "terminator" as 'class' property.

When I open terminator on screen 1, it opens ok, but a clone of "term 1" is created on screen 1, called "term 2". When I call terminator on screen 2, the same happens: a tag "term 1" is created on screen 2, being a clone of "term 2".

• How to add/remove tag with keybindings (thanks sochotnicky)
• How to emulate and absolute index
• How to assign dynamic keybindings

Open a firefox window on screen 1 and 1 on screen 2, close, reset awesome. Open firefox. One of the window will be inserted into the present tag

Create the binding only when the tag is created

The Tyrannical launcher (awful.spawn("dolphin", {floating=true, new_tag=true}) style commands) are now supported by upstream. Tyrannical would still have to implements the handler to support intrusive, new_tag and some others. However, it would make it simpler to extend exec_once and exec to support much cooler use case

    {
        name = "Develop",
        init        = true                                              ,
        exec_once   = {
            {"kate", {master=true, focus=true},
            {"urxvt -cd /", {slave=true}.
            {"urxvt -cd /home", {slave=true}.
            {"urxvt -cd ~/work/", {slave=true}.
            {"kcalc", {floating=true}}
        },
        exclusive   = true                                           ,
        icon        = utils.tools.invertedIconPath("bug.png")        ,
        layout      = awful.layout.suit.max                          ,
        class ={ 
            "Kate"          , "KDevelop"       , "Codeblocks", "Code::Blocks" , "DDD", "kate4"             }
    } ,

Here exec_once would launch 3 instances of urxvt in the Develop tag, even if urxvt is match other rules. This remove the need for ugly class override hacks. It also allow to properly setup a full tag layout from Tyrannical tag declaration.

Currently, I got an implementation of this, but it is unclean and break exec_once current behaviour

Hello all 13 peoples who subscribed to Tyrannical feed.

I plan to release 1.0 soon and would like your opinion and feedback. One thing that will go in for 1.0 is a list is proposed shortcuts. So far I have:

• Add tag
• Remove tag
• Rename tag
• Fork tags
• Create a new tag with the current focused client
• Create a new tag with the 2 last clients from history

Proposed bash/zsh rc functions:

echo "require('awful').util.spawn('urxvt -e \"kcalc\"',{new_tag=true})" | awesome-client

I also will link to the "Repetitive" module that implement the long requested feature to have keyboard shortcuts for tags and clients declared in Tyrannical rules:
https://github.com/Elv13/repetitive

A small set of bash/zsh alias to launch client from terminal with Tyrannical properties:

• Intrusive
• New tag
• As floating
• Sticky

The last item I plan to add is an implementation of exec_once that works with startup notifications and shell commands and maybe backport the improved launcher (mod4+r firefox + control enter to launch in a new tag) as the patch is kind of staled upstream.

Do you have any other cool ideas that?

I am having some trouble implementing the Modkey+R. Running awesome 3.5.6 arch linux 64bit. The prompt does not run when adding this feature. Link to my rc.lua.

Hello there !

I have a curious behaviour with tyrannical and Spotify, I have a matching rule for Spotify but on start, it is never matched to any tag (Pops into a N/A tab) but if and only if I restart Awesome (without killing spotify) then it will be matched on the correct tag.

Here's my tag.lua file where all the magic happens and here is the xprop output for Spotify Spotify.prop.txt

     {
        name      = "media",
        layout    = awful.layout.suit.fair,
        exclusive = true,
        init      = false,
        volatile  = true,
        screen    = {1,2},
        class     = {"vlc", "spotify", "Spotify"}
    },

With the example rc.lua, none of the tags is focused on startup.

How can I achieve that?

It would be nice if there was an tag property to set which tag will be focused on startup (one per screen).

Awesome project, BTW! :)

How can I forcefully move some class to specified screen/tag?
force_screen doesn't work for me, is there some unexpected/expected behavior?

107     {
108         name = "S",
109         init        = true,
110         exclusive   = true,
111         screen      = 1,
112         layout      = awful.layout.suit.tile,
113         selected    = true,
114         force_screen = 1, 
115         exec_once   = {"skype"}, --When the tag is accessed for the first time, execute this command
116         class  = {
117             "Skype",▓
118         }
119     } ,

things like urxvt and xterm use the lowercase name as a custom parameter with the capitalized name being a common denominator.

for example doing the following urxvt -name someName opens a terminal with the classes

someName, URxvt

while the default urxvt classes are

urxvt, URxvt

if you now match urxvt on any of your workspaces it will automatically match someName as well even though the class doesn't exist.

In general this is done so that you can use your xresources in the following manner

URxvt* for all urxvt derivates so urxvt -name htop -e htop would match it as well in there you can set font sizes background colors etc.

urxvt* on the other hand would match urxvt -e htop but not urvxt -name htop in the xresources.

Tyrannical should follow the same convention or at least make it optional

Hey o/,

I wasn't able to try my code with multiple screens, so i don't know if it will work, but here it is:

That's the code that loads the tags after awesome started :

local tyrannical

awful.client.property.persist("startup", "boolean")
awful.client.property.persist("disp", "string")

local tags = {}

if (#client.get() > 1 and client.get()[1].startup) then
    tyrannical = require("tyrannical")
else
    gears.timer.delayed_call(function() 
        tyrannical  = require("tyrannical")
        tyrannical.tags = tags.tags

        for _, c in ipairs(client.get()) do
            c:tags({c.screen.tags[11]})
        end
        for _, c in ipairs(client.get()) do
            disp = nil
            load("disp = " .. c.disp)()
            local ctags = {}
            for i, t in ipairs(disp.tags) do
                ctags[i] = c.screen.tags[t]
            end
            if(#ctags) then
                c:tags(ctags)
            end
        end
    end)
end

-- tags.tags definition

if (#client.get() > 1 and client.get()[1].startup) then
    tyrannical.tags = tags.tags
end

And this is a function to launch before awesome.restart to save client-tag matchings:

function()
    for _, c in ipairs(client.get()) do
        local screen = c.screen.index
        local ctags = {}
        for i, t in ipairs(c:tags()) do
            ctags[i] = t.index
        end
        c.disp = utils.serialise({screen = screen, tags = ctags})
    end
end

(and utils.serialise just comes from your repo Forgotten. I've copied and pasted the function into a utils.lua file and required it)

I saw that it is mentined in the README, but i cannot get this to work
(I'm really bad with lua)
Here is what i have atm, any hints are welcome.

mytags = {  --tag defs here 
    {
        name        = "web",
        mwfact      = 0.65,
        position    = 3, 
        init        = false,
    },
}
tyrannical.tags = mytags

function tag_by_pos(i)
    for i,tag in pairs(mytags) do
        if tag["position"] == i then
            return tag.name
        end
    end
end

I'm unsure how to use or test my new function tag_by_pos.

I tried

for i = 1, 9 do
    globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
        awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                        local screen = mouse.screen
                        local tag = tyrannical.tags_by_name[tag_by_pos(i)]
                        ...

but pressing mod+3 triggers a naughty popup about a

failed attempt to index local _'tag' (a number vallue

in awful/tag.lua:533

This throws an error:

tyrannical.properties.border_width  = {
    lxqt-panel =   0
}

but this works perfectly:

tyrannical.properties.border_width  = {
    XTerm =   0
}

"lxqt-panel" works just fine in other parts of Tyrannical where it's in quotations, but in these sections quotations don't work. I have also tried escaping it with % and %% with no luck

Locked tag = all non floating+intrusive clients are rejected, even if they match. In the case of maching, a duplicate tag will be create.

New properties:

• Locked (boolean)
• Max_clients (number)

So the tag states are going to be

• inclusive : Accept all clients
• fallback : Accept client without better matches
• exclusive : Reject all non-intrusive clients
• locked : Reject all clients but intrusive+floating ones

Tags does not respect the position index.
If tag A with position = 2 is created after tag B with position = 3, it will get position 3.

I have this tag setup:
{
name = "5:IDE",
position = 5,
exclusive = true,
init = false,
floating = false,
layout = awful.layout.suit.max,
class = { "jetbrains-idea-ce", "jetbrains-idea", "jetbrains%-idea%-ce%"}
},

"jetbrains-idea" works fine. However, this one is not matched: WM_CLASS(STRING) = "sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer", "jetbrains-idea-ce"

Even weirder, new dialog boxes from "jetbrains-idea-ce" are picked up on IDE:5 as expected.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Hi!

I tried to replace

awful.key({ modkey },            "r",     function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),

with your fancy code suggested in the README.
Its not working, not even in the example.rc.lua.

I'm on awesome 3.5.6 (stable) from tarball, just ompiled.
Any ideas?

Hello,

the last few days I wanted to switch from shifty to tyrannical. So I tried it out and got the following error with the example.rc.lua:
tyrannical/init.lua:22: bad argument #2 to 'add_signal' (function expected,
got no value)

Obviously the function add_signal in line 22 has no second argument. But I couldn't figure out, how to solve the problem in good manner.

I'm using Debian Wheezy:
Awesome 3.4.13-1 with liblua5.1-0

The description on the shifty page of the awesome wiki and the readme here didn't say, that tyrannical is not working with 3.4.13. That's right?

Thanks for your help!

Greetins,
bastorran

I use two screens, and I have to switch clients from one screen to the other. However, when the client is sent to the other screen, it goes to the opened tag there. I would like the client to go tha tag matched by tyrannical.
This can be done by making the match_client function of tyrannical part of the API. In init.lua:

module.match_client = match_client

Then for my shortcut (Win+F5 in my case) I set:

awful.key({ modkey,           }, "F5",     function (c) c.maximized=false awful.client.movetoscreen(c) tyrannical.match_client(c) c.maximized=true end,  "Move to other screen")

I imagine this could easily be user error, but I've got just a slightly edited version of the included example config. I've added an exec_once {"google-chrome-stable"} to my 'Internet' tag.

Visiting the tag for the first time works as expected, spawning a Chrome instance. However, switching away and back to the Internet tag spawns another instance.

Is there an issue here, or am I doing something stupid? Config attached.
rc.lua.txt