Awesome – move applications automatically to the tab they’re spawned on

I can move to an empty tag, launch openoffice, go back to browser while it’s loading, and it’ll load on the tab I launched it on. Magic!

Add the following somewhere (pretty much anywhere, but after the inclusion of awful, and before the hook_manage function)

spawn = awful.util.spawn
move_to = {}
awful.util.spawn = function (spawnwhat, screen)
    screen = screen or mouse.screen
    local current_tag = awful.tag.selected(screen)
    move_to[#move_to+1] = {tag=current_tag, screen=screen}
    spawn(spawnwhat, screen)
end

Now add to hook_manage

if #move_to then
   c.screen = move_to[#move_to].screen
   awful.client.movetotag(move_to[#move_to].tag, c)
   move_to.remove()
end

rc.lua updated for awesome3-rc4

The config here now works with awesome3-rc4

Screenshot of my desktop using the config:

My desktop as of september 1st 2008. Running awesome3-rc4

Lua: merge two tables, awesome3-rc2 config

Awesome-rc is out, so have upgraded and fixed my config accordingly.
Whilst doing so, I needed a lua function to add all the elements of one table to another, similar to python’s list.extend() method. There isn’t one built into lua, so I rolled my own (with some help from #lua).

function joinTables(t1, t2)
		for k,v in ipairs(t2) do table.insert(t1, v) end return t1
end

et voilà
My most recent awesome config can be found, as ever, here

Tidied version of my rc.lua for awesome-git

As my config file was a mess, I decided to rewrite from scratch, using the other one as a reference. It’s now much tidier.
As it’s likely to change frequently, I will create a ‘page’ for it. From now, my rc.lua will be found here.

Awesome3 Configuration – rc.lua

So I finally took the plunge and upgraded to awesome3. As is the tradition with awesome releases, the config-file syntax has changed. Awesome3 sees the introduction of a lua config file, which although unpopular with some, I see as being quite exciting – I can fiddle and tweak to my heart’s content.

Here are some of the things I have achieved thus far:

• Tags being coloured yellow on an ‘urgent’ hint being set – e.g. when I get a new IM
• A keybinding to jump between current and last visited tab
• Marking those tags with clients in bold
• Launchboxen
• The obligatory ArchLinux logo, which upon clicking brings up a menu to hibernate or shutdown
• Some magic

Code for the above is below.