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6 awesome-client - awesome window manager remote execution
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9 awesome-client [-h|--help] [command [command...]]
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12 awesome-client is a remote command line interface to awesome. It
13 communicates with awesome via D-Bus, allowing remote execution of Lua
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17 awesome-client reads commands passed on the command line or from
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22 The awful.remote module has to be loaded if you want this command to
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26 $ awesome-client 'return 1+1, "Hello, world"\
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30 # The following does not return anything on the command line,
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33 > naughty = require("naughty")
34 > naughty.notify({
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36 > text="This is a notification sent from the command line!"})
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39 # Entering read-eval-print-loop mode
40 # This mode will send every line to awesome, exactly the same as passing
41 # multiple commands on the command line.
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43 awesome# return 1+1
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45 awesome# return 1+1, "Hello, world"
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47 string "Hello, world"
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51 awesome(1) awesomerc(5)
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54 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info <julien@danjou.info>>
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57 <https://awesomewm.org>
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61 2019-07-24 AWESOME-CLIENT(1)