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Material and Mouse driven config for AwesomeWM 4.3
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sending different programs to next screen/external display #34

Closed najamsk closed 5 years ago

najamsk commented 5 years ago

i connect one external display to my laptop. i want to send focus client (lets say vs code on tag3) to next screen.

googling revealed mod4+ctrl+o or mod4+o to do it. but in config didnt find anything.

najamsk commented 5 years ago

i like to send clients/programs back and forth between both monitors under specific tags.

PapyElGringo commented 5 years ago

You can either add some custom shortcut into the global keys or you know you can press CMD aka WINDOW key and then drag and drop any client between screen

najamsk commented 5 years ago

i tried reading docs there was one binding mod4+o i added that to globalay.key inside conf folder but it was throwing error. i really need one key to move client to secondary screen. kinda stuck.

PapyElGringo commented 5 years ago

If you look the default config here https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/awesomerc.lua there is awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", function (c) c:move_to_screen() end, {description = "move to screen", group = "client"}) try to add this to the global

najamsk commented 5 years ago

i did and it was throwing all sort of errors.

attempt to index a nil value (local 'c')

PapyElGringo commented 5 years ago

Sorry my bad add the code to https://github.com/PapyElGringo/material-awesome/blob/master/configuration/client/keys.lua instead

najamsk commented 5 years ago

you are amazing. you know that? solved.