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Awesome WM help popup messed up (possible soluction with new function)

NOTE: I just started to use awesome not very long ago, and don't really know the lua programming language.

I cloned HikariKnight's awesome theme and started to customize the hotkeys. I have a logitech keyboard that has some launcher keys that will open you default apps (on windows that is). I wanted to make them open the default apps here, so I edited the config. Now the help menu has the name of some of the keys repeated over and over for no apparent reason.

messed up awesomewm help popup

If anyone could help me fix this that would be awesome.

Possible Solution(?)

I might be able to use the new function to use the hide_without_description option. This wouldn't be ideal though as it would just remove the hotkey from the help menu.

I found the documentation for it here, but don't know how to use the new function.

Solution

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/awesomewm/comments/mgqq95/messed_up_help_menu/gszd5u0/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    To quote PlatformKnuckles:

    I think I see the problem. Check the line in the keybindings file:

    for i = 1, 9 do

    You're starting the keybindings in a loop multiple times.

    (I didn't look at your rc.lua at all. I just assume the answer above is correct.)