On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 08:43:40AM +0100, Levent S.B. wrote:
> If i use smartbg-git, and i attach another monitor with an XRandR
> script, i have
> to restart awesome for smartbg-git to set the wallpaper. adding
> "/usr/bin/awesome restart"
> to my script wouldn't work, as LXDE is already running. Is there a
> way to send
> a restart command to awesome in a script, like the one that is
> invoked by "Mod4+Ctrl+r"?
> Of course this is a minor issue :)

Well, awesome should automatically restart once it receives the
randr-events that a new screen is detected or removed. But anyway:

# echo "awesome.restart()" | awesome-client

should do the trick of restarting awesome.

regards, Andre

> Am 20.01.2013 07:55, schrieb Levent S.B.:
> >Great!
> >Installed smartbg, restarted awesome, got a nice wallpaper on both
> >monitors instantly.
> >Thanks for the tip!
> >Levent
> >
> >
> >Am 19.01.2013 19:03, schrieb Prashanth:
> >>Since you're on Arch Linux already, I recommend smartbg (
> >>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/smartbg-git/). This works
> >>perfectly for me; each monitor gets a different wallpaper.
> >>
> >>On 19/01/13 17:30, Levent S.B. wrote:
> >>>Hi there!
> >>>I"m running awesome as a window manager for LXDE on 64bit ArchLinux
> >>>and just upgraded to awesome 3.5 yesterday. I'm done with my
> >>>rc.lua workover
> >>>and everything works fine, except for one little issue:
> >>>When i attach an external monitor via XRandR, the Wallpaper, instead of
> >>>being drawn on both screens separately, gets moved to the
> >>>external Monitor,
> >>>leaving the actual LVDS display without wallpaper (save for a
> >>>piece of it's lower right corner).
> >>>I guess i have to change something in these lines of the rc.lua?
> >>>
> >>>----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>-- {{{ Wallpaper
> >>>if beautiful.wallpaper then
> >>>    for s = 1, screen.count() do
> >>>        gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
> >>>    end
> >>>end
> >>>-- }}}
> >>>----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>Can you help me out here?
> >>>
> >>>Greetings,
> >>>Levent
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
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