Provided by: awesome_2.3.2-1_i386 bug

NAME
       awesome-client - awesome window manager command line interface


SYNOPSIS
       awesome-client


DESCRIPTION
       awesome-client is the command line interface to awesome. It
       communicates with awesome via a socket located in the users´s HOME
       directory.


USAGE
       To determine which socket is to be used, it reads the DISPLAY
       environment variable. awesome-client reads commands from standard
       input.

       When you pipe multiple lines into awesome-client, an empty line will
       flush already collected lines into awesome with an according immediate
       execution.

       The command format is: screen_number command argument

       For example, to change a statusbar textbox text on screen 0, you can do
       the following:

           echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <textbox-name> text Hello, world | awesome-client
       To change an iconbox image on screen 1, you can do the following:

           echo 0 widget_tell <statusbar-name> <iconbox-name> image /home/user/image.jpg | awesome-client
       To view tag number 3 on screen 1:

           echo 1 tag_view 3 | awesome-client
       To zoom focused window on screen 0:

           echo 0 client_zoom | awesome-client


SEE ALSO
       awesome(1) awesomerc(5)


AUTHORS
       Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>


WWW
       http://awesome.naquadah.org

                                  06/24/2008                 AWESOME-CLIENT(1)