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KhaimovMR
Asked: 2019-04-15 01:54:20 +0800 CST

Run script on Awesome WM startup

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I'm trying to run a script on Awesome WM start after the login screen (not on the awesome --replace or awesome.restart()).

Does anyone knows the way? No matter is it some kind of /etc/rc.* script or the ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua solution.

Thanks!

scripts startup awesome lua

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As a workaround, adding those signals handlers into ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua:

    awesome.connect_signal(
    'exit',
    function(args)
        awful.util.spawn('touch ~/.awesome-restart')
    end
)

awesome.connect_signal(
    'startup',
    function(args)
        awful.util.spawn('bash -c "rm ~/.awesome-restart || ~/script-to-run-on-startup.sh"')
    end
)

    Explaining: - on the exit signal, that performs only on awesome restart we're creating a flag file, that tells to the startup signal that this startup is going immediately after the awesome restart - on the startup signal fired we're removing this flag and if it doesn't remove successfully (doesn't exist) - we're running our startup-only script.

    PS: Checked - the exit signal doesn't fire on sudo reboot, so it won't be inappropriately fired on full system restart.

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