AWESOME-CLIENT(1)

NAME
awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface

SYNOPSIS
awesome-client

DESCRIPTION
awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome via a socket located in the users's HOME directory.

USAGE
To determine which socket is to be used, it reads the DISPLAY environment variable. awesome-client reads commands from standard input. When you pipe multiple lines into awesome-client, an empty line will flush already collected lines into awesome with an according immediate execution. The command format is: screen_number command argument For example, to change a statusbar textbox text on screen 0, you can do the following:
echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <textbox-name> text Hello, world | awesome-client
To change an iconbox image on screen 1, you can do the following:
echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <iconbox-name> image /home/user/image.jpg | awesome-client
To view tag number 3 on screen 1:
echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome-client
To zoom focused window on screen 0:
echo 0 client_zoom | awesome-client

SEE ALSO
awesome(1) awesomerc(5)

AUTHORS
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info: mailto:julien@danjou.info>

WWW
http://awesome.naquadah.org: http://awesome.naquadah.org