Curve / aawmtt

Another AwesomeWM Testing Tool 🚀

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aawmtt

Another AwesomeWM Testing Tool, written in C++20

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Features

• Live Reload
• Proper Display detection

Why?

The original awmtt as well as awmtt-ng have several issues.

1. awmtt-ng seems to have issues with detecting free displays and will straight up ignore the display passed through "-D".

2. For me they both exit instantly when the config is a sym-link or somewhere else than in "~/.config/awesome".

3. Better Live-Reload

Packages

• AUR

Dependencies

• A C++20 Compiler (Tested on Clang 15)
• Xephyr
• Xlib

Installation

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && cmake --build . --config Release

Usage

aawmtt - v2.0
Usage: aawmtt [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -h,--help                                                 Print this help message and exit
  -x,--xephyr TEXT [Xephyr]                                 Location of xephyr binary
  -a,--awesome TEXT [awesome]                               Location of awesome binary
  -d,--display UINT                                         The Xorg display to use
  -s,--size TEXT [1920x1080]                                Size for the xephyr window
  -r,--reload BOOLEAN [1]                                   Enable/Disable auto-reload
  -R,--recursive BOOLEAN [1]                                Watch files recursively
  -m,--restart-method ENUM [1]                              Method used to restart awesome (0 = restart, 1 = sighup)
  -c,--config TEXT [~/.config/awesome/rc.lua]               AwesomeWM config to load
  -w,--watch TEXT                                           Directory to watch for auto-reload
  --awesome-args TEXT ...                                   Additional arguments for awesome
  --xephyr-args TEXT [[-ac,-br,-noreset]]  ...              Arguments for xephyr

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