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Gergely Peidl edited this page Dec 12, 2016 · 17 revisions

Controlling Awesome

Description Command Shortcut
Restart Awesome awesome.restart Mod4 + Control + r
Quit from Awesome awesome.quit Mod4 + Shift + q

Tag browsing

Description Shortcut
Go left Mod4 + left
Go right Mod4 + right
Go to the last Mod4 + Esc
Go to next Non empty left tag alt + left
Go to next Non empty right tag alt + right
Go to Tag number Mod4 + 1...9
Toggle tag Mod4 + Control + 1...9
Move client to tag Mod4 + Shift + 1...9
Toggle tag Mod4 + Control + Shift + 1...9

Dynamic Tag actions

Description Shortcut
Add new tag modkey + Shift + n
Rename tag modkey + Shift + r
Move to next tag modkey + Shift + Right
Move to previous tag modkey + Shift + Left
Delete tag modkey + Shift + d

Client focus

Description Shortcut
Focus Alt + k
Set focus to next application Alt + j
Set focus by direction down Mod4 + j
Set focus by direction up Mod4 + k
Set focus by direction left Mod4 + h
!FIX IT! Set focus by direction right Mod4 + l
Panic mode, allways switch to screen 1, tag 2 named 'IDE' ;) Alt + a
Set focus to relative next relative screen Mod4 + Control + j
Set focus to relative next relative screen Mod4 + Control + k
Jump to the client that received the urgent hint first. Mod4 + u

Layout manipulation

Description Shortcut
Client swap to next layout Mod4 + Shift + j
Client swap to previous layout Mod4 + Shift + k
Switch client (a.k.a. Alt+Tab on Windows Mod4 + Tab
Increase master width of the client Alt + Shift + l
Decrease master width of the client Alt + Shift + h
Increase the number of master windows Mod4 + Shift + l
Decrease the number of master windows Mod4 + Shift + h
Increase number of column windows. Mod4 + Control + l
Decrease number of column windows. Mod4 + Control + h
Change the layout of the current tag. Mod4 + Space
Change back to the previous layout of the current tag. Mod4 + Shift + Space
Minimize a client Mod4 + n
Restore (=unminimize) a client. Mod4 + Control + n
Toggle full screen Mod4 + f
Quit from application Mod4 + q
Toggle the floating state of a client Mod4 + Control + Space
Get the master window Mod4 + Control + Return
Move a client to a screen Mod4 + o
Move a client to the top of every other windows Mod4 + t

User applications

Description Command Shortcut
Open terminal urxvtc or xterm Mod4 + Return
Drop down terminal urxvtc or xterm Mod4 + z
Show calendar Alt + c
Show music player ncmpcpp Alt + x
Take a screenshot gnome-screenshot --interactive Alt + p
Lock screen & mute volume & turn off the screen amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ toggle && xset dpms force off && i3lock -e -f -c 000000 Mod4 + l
Open browser firefox Mod4 + w
Open developer browser firefox-aurora Mod4 + Shift + w
Open browser in private mode firefox --private-window Mod4 + Control + w
Open secondary browser chromium Mod4 + i
Open secondary browser in incognito mode chromium --incognito Mod4 + Control + i
Open text editor subl Mod4 + s
Open image editor gimp Mod4 + g
Open file manager nautilus Mod4 + e
Run custom command Mod4 + r
Run Lua command Mod4 + x

ALSA volume control

Description Shortcut
Raise Volume Mod4 + Up or XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Lower Volume Mod4 + Down or XF86AudioLowerVolume
Toggle mute Mod4 + m or XF86AudioMute
Set volume to 100% Mod4 + XF86AudioRaiseVolume

MPD control

Description Shortcut
Pause Alt + Control + Up or XF86AudioPlay
Stop Alt + Control + Down
Previous Alt + Control + Left or XF86AudioPrev
Next Alt + Control + Right or XF86AudioNext

Misc

Description command Shortcut
Show menu Mod4 + a
Show/Hide Wibox Mod4 + b
Show menubar Mod4 + p
Copy to clipboard xsel -p -o | xsel -i -b Mod4 + c
Change between keyboard layouts setxkbmap Alt + Shift_L
Toggle Redshift redshift Mod4 + Shift + T

Misc

Description command Shortcut
Increase brightness with 10% light -A 10 XF86MonBrightnessUp
Decrease brightness with 10% light -U 10 XF86MonBrightnessDown
Increase brightness with 10% light -A 10 Mod4 + Alt + Up
Decrease brightness with 10% light -U 10 Mod4 + Alt + Down