Awesome WM 3.4.1 help

behemoth8186 · 05-28-2010, 10:52 PM

I hope this thread is in the right section, if not, mods please move to the correct section.

I'm on Ubuntu (crunchbang actually) 9.04, and I've ventured to the world of the tiling WMs. Specifically, Awesome. I used 2.3.4 for quite a while, but have recently upgraded to 3.4.1. I've managed to get the vicious widgets working to display network, cpu, mem, etc., but the one thing that is driving me crazy is the statusbar icons.

to avoid the tl,dr;

Is there anyway to turn off the program icons in the status bar for the open programs? i.e. terminal, firefox, etc.

Ive googled as well as I can with no luck, and the awesome wiki for this seems to be outdated, as its suggestion bricks my awesome config. Any help is greatly appreciated.

antegallya · 05-29-2010, 04:48 AM

Hello,

indeed the wiki is outdated for this. AFAIK there's no more option to disable the icons.
But awesome being easily modified :
Let's add that option !
Apply this patch to "/usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/widget/tasklist.lua"

Code:

--- tasklist.old        2010-05-29 11:34:45.816804701 +0200
+++ tasklist.lua        2010-05-29 11:34:45.816804701 +0200
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@
     local text = "<span font_desc='"..font.."'>"
     local name
     local status_image
+    local c_icon
+    if not args.hide_icon then
+        c_icon = c.icon
+    end
     if client.floating.get(c) and floating_icon then
         status_image = capi.image(floating_icon)
     end
@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@
         text = text .. name
     end
     text = text .. "</span>"
-    return text, bg, status_image, c.icon
+    return text, bg, status_image, c_icon
 end
 
 --- Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from all tags and screen.

and you should have in your rc.lua something like

Code:

    -- Create a tasklist widget
    mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(
                    function(c)
                        return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s)
                    end, mytasklist.buttons)

that you will replace by

Code:

    -- Create a tasklist widget
    mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(
                    function(c)
                        return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s,
                                    { hide_icon = true })
                    end, mytasklist.buttons)

telling it to hide the icons.

Hope this helps.

behemoth8186 · 05-29-2010, 12:49 PM

Thanks for the reply.

I'll have to give this a shot tonight. I'll reply and let you know how it goes.

Is there a specific place to place the patch in the file?

antegallya · 05-29-2010, 12:59 PM

The place to place it is where is has to go. You don't place the patch in the file, you have to apply it.
You can use the "patch" command for that, or understand the notation :

Code:

@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@
     local text = "<span font_desc='"..font.."'>"
     local name
     local status_image
+    local c_icon
+    if not args.hide_icon then
+        c_icon = c.icon
+    end
     if client.floating.get(c) and floating_icon then
         status_image = capi.image(floating_icon)
     end

that tells you to look near line 95 and around that text, add the lines that are marked with '+'.

Code:

@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@
         text = text .. name
     end
     text = text .. "</span>"
-    return text, bg, status_image, c.icon
+    return text, bg, status_image, c_icon
 end

tells you to change the line "return text, bg, status_image, c.icon" by the one marked with the '+'.

behemoth8186 · 05-29-2010, 01:11 PM

Ahhh, understood.

Thanks.

behemoth8186 · 05-29-2010, 03:09 PM

Awesome! Worked perfectly.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2rqzjnm.jpg

Thanks for your help!

behemoth8186 · 05-29-2010, 09:55 PM

Mods, please mark this as solved. Thanks to antegallya.