Awesome 3 rc.lua updated

Quite a change colour-wise, little change function wise (only a bit to randomly change active tag colour).
Obligatory screenshot:

Screenshot of awesome

This is what I added:
Added focus_choices to the bg table

 bg = {normal = "#e7e7e7", focus = "#d97600", focus_choices = {"#669bcb", "#d97600", "#6eb22c"}, urgent = "#ffaa88"}

Changed taglist.label

 function taglist.label(t)
                local bg_color
                local fg_color
                local background = ''
                if t.selected then
                        local choice = math.random(1,3)
                        bg_color = bg['focus_choices'][choice]
                        fg_color = fg['focus']
                end
...function continues

As always, the latest version of my config can be found here.

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.