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AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)                                          AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)


NAME

       awesome2-client - awesome2 window manager command line interface


SYNOPSIS

       awesome2-client


DESCRIPTION

       awesome2-client is the command line interface to awesome2. It
       communicates with awesome2 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. awesome2-client reads commands from standard
       input.

       When you pipe multiple lines into awesome2-client, an empty line will
       flush already collected lines into awesome2 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 | awesome2-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 | awesome2-client

       To view tag number 3 on screen 1:

           echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome2-client

       To zoom focused window on screen 0:

           echo 0 client_zoom | awesome2-client


SEE ALSO

       awesome2(1) awesome2rc(5)


AUTHORS

       Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info[1]>


WWW

       http://awesome2.naquadah.org


NOTES

        1. julien@danjou.info
           mailto:julien@danjou.info

                                  02/19/2016                AWESOME2-CLIENT(1)

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