awesome

• Index

Contents

• Static module functions
• Tables
• Fields

Libraries

• awful.completion
• awful.hotkeys_popup
• awful.layout
• awful.permissions
• awful.placement
• awful.prompt
• awful.spawn
• awful.util
• dbus
• dynamite.widget.pager
• dynamite.widget.spawn
• gears.matcher
• gears.surface
• lib.lain.layout.centerwork
• menubar.menu_gen
• menubar.utils
• naughty
• selection
• wibox.widget

Core components

• awesome
• awful.keygrabber
• client and awful.client
• drawable
• gears.timer
• mousegrabber
• naughty.action
• naughty.notification
• root
• screen and awful.screen
• tag and awful.tag

Input handling

• awful.button
• awful.key
• awful.keyboard
• mouse

Declarative rules

• ruled.client
• ruled.clipboard
• ruled.notifications
• ruled.screen
• ruled.tag

Widgets

• awful.widget.button
• awful.widget.clienticon
• awful.widget.keyboardlayout
• awful.widget.launcher
• awful.widget.layoutbox
• awful.widget.layoutlist
• awful.widget.prompt
• awful.widget.taglist
• awful.widget.tasklist
• awful.widget.watch
• naughty.list.actions
• naughty.list.notifications
• naughty.widget.icon
• naughty.widget.message
• naughty.widget.title
• wibox.widget.calendar
• wibox.widget.checkbox
• wibox.widget.graph
• wibox.widget.imagebox
• wibox.widget.piechart
• wibox.widget.progressbar
• wibox.widget.separator
• wibox.widget.slider
• wibox.widget.systray
• wibox.widget.textbox
• wibox.widget.textclock

Widget containers

• awful.widget.only_on_screen
• naughty.widget.background
• wibox.container.arcchart
• wibox.container.background
• wibox.container.constraint
• wibox.container.margin
• wibox.container.mirror
• wibox.container.place
• wibox.container.radialprogressbar
• wibox.container.rotate
• wibox.container.scroll
• wibox.container.tile

Widget layouts

• wibox.layout.align
• wibox.layout.fixed
• wibox.layout.flex
• wibox.layout.grid
• wibox.layout.manual
• wibox.layout.ratio
• wibox.layout.stack

Popups and bars

• awful.hotkeys_popup.widget
• awful.menu
• awful.popup
• awful.titlebar
• awful.tooltip
• awful.wallpaper
• awful.wibar
• awful.widget.calendar_popup
• menubar
• naughty.layout.box
• naughty.layout.legacy
• wibox

Utility libraries

• gears.debug
• gears.filesystem
• gears.geometry
• gears.math
• gears.object
• gears.protected_call
• gears.sort
• gears.string
• gears.table
• gears.wallpaper

Theme related libraries

• beautiful
• gears.color
• gears.shape

Client tiling

• dynamite
• dynamite.layout.conditional
• dynamite.layout.ratio
• dynamite.layout.stack
• dynamite.layout.tabbed
• dynamite.utils
• dynamite.widget.placeholder

Sample files

• rc.lua
• theme.lua

Classes

• awful.widget.common
• gears.cache
• gears.connection
• gears.history
• gears.matrix
• gears.reactive
• gears.watcher
• menubar.icon_theme
• menubar.index_theme
• signals
• wibox.container.conditional
• wibox.container.scale
• wibox.container.template
• wibox.drawable
• wibox.hierarchy
• wibox.widget.base
• wibox.widget.status
• xproperties

Documentation

• Authors
• Readme
• Contributing
• The Widget system
• Creating new widget
• Default configuration file documentation
• Change Awesome appearance
• My first Awesome
• The AwesomeWM client layout system
• Startup options
• Building and Testing
• Using Cairo and LGI
• Tips for upgrading your configuration
• NEWS
• FAQ

Module: menubar.menu_gen

Menu generation module for menubar

Static module functions

menubar.menu_gen.lookup_category_icons ()	Find icons for category entries.
menubar.menu_gen.generate (callback)	Generate an array of all visible menu entries.

Tables

all_categories

Specify the mapping of .desktop Categories section to the categories in the menubar.

Fields

menubar.menu_gen.all_menu_dirs

N/A

Specifies all directories where menubar should look for .desktop files.

Static module functions

menubar.menu_gen.lookup_category_icons ()

Find icons for category entries.

menubar.menu_gen.generate (callback)

Generate an array of all visible menu entries.

Parameters:

• callback Will be fired when all menu entries were parsed with the resulting list of menu entries as argument.
  • entries table All menu entries.

Tables

all_categories

Specify the mapping of .desktop Categories section to the categories in the menubar. If "use" flag is set to false then any of the applications that fall only to this category will not be shown.

Fields:

• multimedia
• name
• icon_name
• use

Fields

menubar.menu_gen.all_menu_dirs N/A

Specifies all directories where menubar should look for .desktop files. The search is recursive.