I've been reading as much as I can online, but none of it seems to work (i.e. changing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua).
I've installed awesome window manager from the repos, and I log into it via GDM, and now I'd like to get it to start a few applications every time I log into the session.
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awful.util.spawn("conky")
awful.util.spawn("nm-applet")Lines like these at the bottom of your .config/awseome/rc.lua will do the trick. If you want it simple. At least, that's what the awesome-wiki calls simple.
Starting from a template
First you'll need to copy the template rc.lua file into your home folder
mkdir ~/.config/awesome
cp /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ~/.config/awesome/Defining applications to start
Now using awesome - edit config copy the following code at the bottom of your new rc.lua file
do local cmds = { "firefox", "xedit" } for _,i in pairs(cmds) do awful.util.spawn(i) end
endIn this example - firefox and xedit are run on startup.
An excellent wiki page describing this and much more can be found on ArchLinux
you can use single_instance or once and pass them rules like this
awful.spawn.single_instance("firefox", awful.rules.rules)After an upgrade of Awesome, the solution:
awful.util.spawn("nm-applet &")make it crash (return to the login prompt).
However, it works great with:
os.execute("nm-applet &")Related ticket: awesome crashes when using awful.util.spawn() on startup
0to prevent double launch:
do local autostarts = { "safeeyes", } for _,i in pairs(autostarts) do awful.spawn.easy_async_with_shell( 'ps -C '.. i ..' |wc -l', function(stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code) gears.debug.dump(stdout) if tonumber(stdout) or 0 < 2 then awful.spawn(i) end end ) end
end
