awesome-client(1)
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NAME
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awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface

SYNOPSIS
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awesome-client

DESCRIPTION
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awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome
via a socket located in the users's HOME directory.

USAGE
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To determine which socket is to be used, it read the DISPLAY environment variable.
awesome-client read commands from standart input. The command format is:
 screen_number command argument

For example, to change statusbar text on screen 0, you can do the following:

    echo 0 setstatustext Hello, world | awesome-client
 
To view tag number 3 on screen 1:

    echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome-client
 
To zoom focused window on screen 0:

    echo 0 client_zoom | awesome-client


SEE ALSO
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awesome(1)

AUTHORS
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Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>

WWW
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http://awesome.naquadah.org
