spec-keybind.md

Awesome / Keybind

Subject

• Hotkeys Help
• Awesome
• Menu
• System
• Launch App
• Show Desktop
• Tag
• Window
• Layout
• Volume

Link

• docs-spec-keybind
• spec-mousebind

Manual

• https://awesomewm.org/doc/
• https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/
• https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/input_handling/awful.keyboard.html

Config File

• ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
• ~/.config/awesome/style/experiment/rc.lua

• Search append_global_keybindings
• Search append_client_keybindings
• Search request::default_keybindings

Keys

Mean

Key	Description
Shift	'Shift'
Ctrl	'Control'
Win	'Mod4' (Super)
Alt	'Mod1' (Meta)

Using 'Alt' maybe collision occurs on bash emacs mode.

Please read:

• $ man bash ## Search [^READLINE]
• $ man 3 readline ## Search [Emacs Mode] or [Emacs Meta bindings]

Tips

Key	Description
Win	For Window (Client)
Alt	For Workspace (Tag) (Desktop)
Shift	For Window Move or Swap
Ctrl	For Window Resize

Hotkeys Help

Button	Description
Win + F1	Show Hotkeys Help

Awesome

Button	Description
Alt + F1	Show The MenuBar
Alt + F2	Run Prompt
Alt + F3	Lua Execute Prompt

Menu

Key	Description
Win + Space	Popup Root Menu
Win + c	Popup Workspace Menu (Window List) (Client List)

System

Key	Description
Alt + Shift + z	Shutdown
Alt + Shift + x	Logout
Alt + Shift + c	Reconfigure or Restart(Not Reboot)

Launch App

Terminal

Key	Description
Alt + Enter	Launch Terminal (sakura)
Alt + Shift + a	Launch Terminal (xterm)
Alt + Shift + t	Launch Terminal (urxvt)

Rofi

Key	Description
Alt + Shift + r	Launch Rofi (rofi -show run)
Alt + Shift + w	Launch Rofi (rofi -show window -show-icons)
Alt + Shift + d	Launch Rofi (rofi -show drun -show-icons)

Misc

Key	Description
Alt + Shift + f	Launch File Manager (pcmanfm-qt)
Alt + Shift + g	Launch File Manager (nautilus)
Alt + Shift + b	Launch Web Browser (firefox)
Alt + Shift + e	Launch Text Editor (gedit)

Show Desktop

Key	Description
Win + d	Show Desktop

Tag

Tag / Switch

Key	Description
Alt + [0-9]	Switch to Specific Tag
Win + [0-9]	Move a Window to Specific Tag

Key	Description
Alt + a	Switch to Previous Tag
Alt + s	Switch to Next Tag
Alt + z	Switch to Perior Tag

Key	Description
Alt + h	Switch to Previous Tag
Alt + l	Switch to Next Tag

Key	Description
Alt + [	Switch to Previous Tag
Alt + ]	Switch to Next Tag

Window

Window / Switch

Key	Description
Win + a	Switch to Previous Window
Win + s	Switch to Next Window
Win + z	Switch to Perior Window

Key	Description
Win + h	Switch to Previous Window
Win + l	Switch to Next Window

Key	Description
Win + [	Switch to Previous Window
Win + ]	Switch to Next Window

Key	Description
Win + u	Switch to Urgent Window

Window Close

Key	Description
Win + q	Window Close

Window Fullscreen

Key	Description
Win + f	Window Toggle Fullscreen

Window Minimize

Key	Description
Win + x	Window Minimize (Iconify)
Win + n	Window Minimize (Iconify)

Key	Description
Win + Shift + x	Window Unminimize (Uniconify)
Win + Shift + n	Window Unminimize (Uniconify)

Window Maximize

Key	Description
Win + w	Window Toggle Maximize
Win + m	Window Toggle Maximize
Win + Shift + m	Window Toggle Maximize Horizontally
Win + Ctrl + m	Window Toggle Maximize Vertically

Window AlwaysOnTop

Key	Description
Win + t	Window Toggle AlwaysOnTop

Layout

Layout Toggle

Key	Description
Alt + k	Previous Layout
Alt + j	Next Layout

Key	Description
Alt + :	Previous Layout
Alt + ;	Next Layout

Key	Description
Alt + grave	Previous Layout
Alt + Tab	Next Layout

grave means backquote `

Key	Description
Alt + v	Toggle focused window between tiled and floating

Layout / Swap

Key	Description
Alt + Shift + h	Swap with previous window in tag
Alt + Shift + l	Swap with next window in tag
Alt + Shift + p	Move current window to master area

Layout / Master

Key	Description
Alt + Ctrl + h	Decrease master width factor
Alt + Ctrl + l	Increase master width factor

Key	Description
Alt + Ctrl + k	Increase the number of master clients
Alt + Ctrl + j	Decrease the number of master clients

Layout / Stack

Key	Description
Alt + Ctrl + ,	Decrease the number of columns
Alt + Ctrl + .	Increase the number of columns

• (,) for (<)
• (.) for (>)

Volume

Key	Description
Alt + Shift + v	Launch Volume Control (mate-volume-control)
Alt + m	Volume Toggle Mute

Key	Description
Alt + Shitf + ,	Volume Decrease
Alt + Shitf + .	Volume Increase
Alt + Ctrl + ,	Volume Decrease Slowly
Alt + Ctrl + .	Volume Increase Slowly

collision occurs on bash emacs mode

• Alt + ,
• Alt + .

Key	Description
XF86AudioMute	Volume Toggle Mute
XF86AudioLowerVolume	Volume Decrease
XF86AudioRaiseVolume	Volume Increase