API documentation for awesome, a highly configurable X window manager (version v4.1).
Welcome to the documentation for the awesome window manager. Below you find an overview of the individual parts which links to the full documentation.
If you are a new user, you may want to read 07-my-first-awesome.md to get started. In 05-awesomerc.md, the default configuration is explained.
If you already used awesome in the past, 89-NEWS.md and 17-porting-tips.md should be useful for you.
Libraries
| awesome | awesome core API |
| awful.client | This module documentation has been merged with the client class. |
| awful.completion | Completion module. |
| awful.ewmh | Implements EWMH requests handling. |
| awful.hotkeys_popup | Popup widget which shows current hotkeys and their descriptions. |
| awful.hotkeys_popup.keys | Additional hotkeys for awful.hotkeys_widget |
| awful.hotkeys_popup.keys.vim | VIM hotkeys for awful.hotkeys_widget |
| awful.hotkeys_popup.widget | Popup widget which shows current hotkeys and their descriptions. |
| awful.key | Create easily new key objects ignoring certain modifiers. |
| awful.keygrabber | Keygrabber Stack |
| awful.layout | Layout module for awful |
| awful.menu | A menu for awful |
| awful.mouse | This module documentation has been merged with the mouse class. |
| awful.placement | Algorithms used to place various drawables. |
| awful.prompt | Prompt module for awful. |
| awful.rules | Apply rules to clients at startup. |
| awful.screen | This module documentation has been merged with the screen class. |
| awful.spawn | Spawning of programs. |
| awful.tag | This module documentation has been merged with the tag class. |
| awful.titlebar | Titlebars for awful. |
| awful.util | Utility module for awful |
| awful.wibox | This module is deprecated and has been renamed awful.wibar |
| beautiful | Theme library. |
| beautiful.theme_assets | Generate vector assets using current colors. |
| beautiful.xresources | Library for getting xrdb data. |
| dbus | awesome D-Bus API |
| gears.color | |
| gears.debug | |
| gears.filesystem | Filesystem module for gears |
| gears.geometry | Helper functions used to compute geometries. |
| gears.math | Math module for gears |
| gears.object.properties | An helper module to map userdata __index and __newindex entries to lua classes. |
| gears.protected_call | |
| gears.shape | Module dedicated to gather common shape painters. |
| gears.string | String module for gears |
| gears.surface | |
| gears.table | Table module for gears |
| gears.wallpaper | |
| keygrabber | awesome keygrabber API |
| menubar | Menubar module, which aims to provide a freedesktop menu alternative |
| menubar.menu_gen | Menu generation module for menubar |
| menubar.utils | Utility module for menubar |
| mouse | awesome mouse API. |
| mousegrabber | awesome mousegrabber API |
| naughty | Notification library |
| naughty.dbus | DBUS/Notification support Notify |
| objects.button | Mouse buttons bindings |
| objects.client | client_t type |
| objects.drawable | drawable type |
| objects.drawin | Drawin type |
| objects.key | Key modifier |
| objects.screen | Is this screen still valid and may be used? |
| objects.tag | Tag type |
| objects.window | Windows type |
| root | awesome root window API |
| selection | awesome selection (clipboard) API |
| wibox.hierarchy | Management of widget hierarchies. |
Sample files
| rc.lua | The default rc.lua file. |
| theme.lua | The default theme file. |
Classes
| awful.button | Create easily new buttons objects ignoring certain modifiers. |
| awful.tooltip | Tooltip module for awesome objects. |
| awful.wibar | Wibox module for awful. |
| awful.widget.button | A simple button widget. |
| awful.widget.clienticon | Container showing the icon of a client. |
| awful.widget.common | |
| awful.widget.graph | This module has been moved to wibox.widget.graph |
| awful.widget.keyboardlayout | |
| awful.widget.launcher | |
| awful.widget.layoutbox | Layoutbox widget. |
| awful.widget.only_on_screen | A container that makes a widget display only on a specified screen. |
| awful.widget.progressbar | This module has been moved to wibox.widget.progressbar |
| awful.widget.prompt | The widget version of awful.prompt. |
| awful.widget.taglist | Taglist widget module for awful |
| awful.widget.tasklist | Tasklist widget module for awful. |
| awful.widget.textclock | This widget has moved to wibox.widget.textclock |
| awful.widget.watch | Watch widget. |
| button | awesome button API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
| client | A process window. |
| drawable | awesome drawable API |
| gears.cache | |
| gears.matrix | An implementation of matrices for describing and working with affine transformations. |
| gears.object | The object oriented programming base class used by various Awesome widgets and components. |
| gears.timer | Timer objects and functions. |
| key | awesome key API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
| menubar.icon_theme | Class module for icon lookup for menubar |
| menubar.index_theme | Class module for parsing an index.theme file |
| screen | awesome screen API
Screen objects can be added and removed over time. |
| signals | Handling of signals. |
| tag | awesome tag API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
| wibox | |
| wibox.container.arcchart | A circular chart (arc chart). |
| wibox.container.background | A container capable of changing the background color, foreground color widget shape. |
| wibox.container.constraint | |
| wibox.container.margin | |
| wibox.container.mirror | |
| wibox.container.place | A container used to place smaller widgets into larger space. |
| wibox.container.radialprogressbar | A circular progressbar wrapper. |
| wibox.container.rotate | A container rotating the conained widget by 90 degrees. |
| wibox.container.scroll | This container scrolls its inner widget inside of the available space. |
| wibox.drawable | Handling of drawables. |
| wibox.layout.align | |
| wibox.layout.constraint | This class has been moved to wibox.container. |
| wibox.layout.fixed | |
| wibox.layout.flex | |
| wibox.layout.grid | A grid layout. |
| wibox.layout.margin | This class has been moved to wibox.container.margin |
| wibox.layout.mirror | This class has been moved to wibox.container.mirror |
| wibox.layout.ratio | A layout filling all the available space. |
| wibox.layout.rotate | This class has been moved to wibox.container.rotate |
| wibox.layout.scroll | This class has been moved to wibox.container.scroll |
| wibox.layout.stack | A stacked layout. |
| wibox.widget.background | This class has been moved to wibox.container.background |
| wibox.widget.base | |
| wibox.widget.checkbox | A boolean display widget. |
| wibox.widget.graph | A graph widget. |
| wibox.widget.imagebox | |
| wibox.widget.piechart | Display percentage in a circle. |
| wibox.widget.progressbar | A progressbar widget. |
| wibox.widget.slider | An interactive mouse based slider widget. |
| wibox.widget.systray | |
| wibox.widget.textbox | |
| wibox.widget.textclock | Text clock widget. |
| xproperties | Handling of X properties. |