Awesome Window Manager 3.x Cheat Sheet

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Default shortcuts for awesome window manager (http://awesome.naquadah.org). The list is copied from awesome man-page.

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Awesome

Configuration file is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME¹/awesome/rc.lua

¹ should be $HOME/.config

Mouse Buttons

Button1	Left
Button2	Middle (scroll-wheel click)
Button3	Right
Button4	Scroll-wheel up
Button5	Scroll-whell down

For a classical right-handled mouse

Keys

Mod4

Windows key

For a classical PC keyboard

Window Manager Control (Keyboard)

Mod4 + Control + r	Restart awesome.
Mod4 + Shift + q	Quit awesome.
Mod4 + r	Run prompt.
Mod4 + x	Run Lua code prompt.
Mod4 + Return	Spawn terminal emulator.
Mod4 + w	Open main menu.

Clients (Keyboard)

Mod4 + m	Maximize client.
Mod4 + n	Minimize client.
Mod4 + Control + n	Restore client.
Mod4 + f	Set client fullscreen.
Mod4 + Shift + c	Kill focused client.
Mod4 + t	Set client on-top.

Navigation (Mouse)

Button1 on tag name	View tag
Button4, Button5 on tag name	Switch to previous or next tag.
Button4, Button5 on root window	Switch to previous or next tag.
Button1, Button3, Button4, Button5 on layout symbol	Switch to previous or next layout.

Navigation (Keyboard)

Mod4 + j	Focus next client.
Mod4 + k	Focus previous client.
Mod4 + u	Focus first urgent client.
Mod4 + Left	View previous tag.
Mod4 + Right	View next tag.
Mod4 + 1-9	Switch to tag 1-9.
Mod4 + Control + j	Focus next screen.
Mod4 + Control + k	Focus previous screen.
Mod4 + Escape	Focus previously selected tag set.

Layout Modification (Mouse)

Mod4 + Button1 on tag name	Tag current client with this tag only.
Mod4 + Button3 on tag name	Toggle this tag for client.
Button3 on tag name	Add this tag to current view.
Mod4 + Button1 on client window	Move window.
Mod4 + Button3 on client window	Resize window.

Layout Modification Key Bindings

Mod4 + Shift + j	Switch client with next client.
Mod4 + Shift + k	Switch client with previous client.
Mod4 + o	Send client to next screen.
Mod4 + h	Decrease master width factor by 5%.
Mod4 + l	Increase master width factor by 5%.
Mod4 + Shift + h	Increase number of master windows by 1.
Mod4 + Shift + l	Decrease number of master windows by 1.
Mod4 + Control + h	Increase number of columns for non-master windows by 1.
Mod4 + Control + l	Decrease number of columns for non-master windows by 1.
Mod4 + space	Switch to next layout.
Mod4 + Shift + space	Switch to previous layout.
Mod4 + Control + space	Toggle client floating status.
Mod4 + Control + Return	Swap focused client with master.
Mod4 + Control + 1-9	Toggle tag view.
Mod4 + Shift + 1-9	Tag client with tag.
Mod4 + Shift + Control + 1-9	Toggle tag on client.

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