https://github.com/zackpete/hints

Window picker with hints for the Awesome window manager
https://github.com/zackpete/hints

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Window picker with hints for the Awesome window manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zackpete/hints
• Owner: zackpete
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-08-05T08:44:06.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-08-25T02:45:36.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T11:23:49.888Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Lua
• Homepage:
• Size: 209 KB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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hints

=====

Window picker with hints for Awesome

Installation

============

Put hints.lua in the awesome config directory (~/.config/awesome)

Load hints module (in rc.lua):

```lua

require("hints")

```

Initialize (in rc.lua, must be after beautiful.init()):

```lua

hints.init()

```

Add a keybinding to run hints.focus() (in rc.lua in globalkeys declaration):

```lua

awful.key({ modkey }, "j", function () hints.focus() end),

```

Usage

=====

Now, when you press modkey + j, letters will pop up on each window and you can select a window to focus by pressing the corresponding letter.