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How to run a bash with shortcut on awesome WM

I'm new in Awesome WM and try to add a custom shortcut to run a bash file but it does not work.

awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, function () awful.util.spawn(./layout-ir.sh) end),

I add this behind of "Standard Program".

Thank you

Solution

  • First of all, I assume that you are using awesome 3.4.something since you tagged this as . Then: You don't specify key for your shortcut, only modifiers. And lastly: you should use full path for command you want to run and put it in double quotations.

    See example for binding Shift-e to run script from user home folder:

    awful.key({ modkey,   "Shift" }, "e", function () awful.util.spawn("sh /home/USERNAME/myscript.sh") end),