On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:57:39AM +0200, lukash wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:41:54 +0200 (CEST) Daniel Kreischer
> <d.t.kreisc...@web.de> wrote:
> > As I am actually running awesome, I wonder what would be the expected
> > procedure to extend awesome's functionality with a script?
> >
> > Would I have to write some kind of widget which was then called in the
> > rc.lua? In other words, how would I preferably make awesome call my
> > script so that the script inherits awesome's initialization?
>
> Depends on what you wanna do. If you want to run a script on awesome
> startup, you can use awful.util.spawn("yourscript"). If you want to control
> awesome from outside while its running, there is awesome-client binary
> that allows you to pass Lua commands to awesome.
>
That's actually quite ugly a modus operandi. It won't export the lua
environment to the script (because it's started with os.execute() after
all). You'd for example do the follwing to run the script "gna.lua":
echo "dofile(\"gna.lua\")" | awesome-client
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