As far as I know tab completion is a bash functionality. The mod+r opens an input window, captures input and spawns a process. I've never tried tab in this mode.
I do not expect tab completion to work but it should not crash either. I'll try it out later and see what happens. My environment is identical to yours. Regards Mohan Sundaram Sent from my mobile, please pardon typos On Jun 5, 2014 9:18 PM, "Alejandro Jadzinsky" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi first I would like say that I've being using awesome for over a year > and I'm really happy with it. > > now the issue I need help with. > > background: > new laptop, formatted from scratch with Ubuntu 14.04 installed. > > sudo apt-get install awesome (everything OK) > > log out > log in using awesome as wm > > issue: > Mod+r (the prompt appears) > type gedit and press "enter" (the app is opened OK) > type ged and press "tab" (I'm kicked off to the log-in screen) > > context info > > ale@smp:~$ uname -a > Linux smp 3.13.0-27-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 18:06:16 UTC 2014 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > ale@smp:~$ awesome -v > awesome v3.4.15 (Never Gonna Give You Up) > • Build: Jan 23 2014 14:28:37 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.8.2 > (buildd@komainu) > • D-Bus support: ✔ > > this is the log of the error > (process:3868): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous > GError or uninitialized memory. > This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL > before it's set. > The overwriting error message was: Failed to execute child process "" (No > such file or directory) > E: awesome: signal_fatal:225: dumping backtrace > awesome(backtrace_get+0x41) [0x43c9f1] > awesome() [0x40e8cc] > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36ff0) [0x7f856cb01ff0] > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1c) [0x7f856cb4ec4c] > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_error_free+0x12) [0x7f856f1f9332] > awesome(spawn_system+0xba) [0x429c6a] > awesome() [0x426cea] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xbfb8) [0x7f856d3e7fb8] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0x166ff) [0x7f856d3f26ff] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xc3fd) [0x7f856d3e83fd] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xb6eb) [0x7f856d3e76eb] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xc58a) [0x7f856d3e858a] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(lua_pcall+0x4d) [0x7f856d3e434d] > awesome() [0x41b3b8] > awesome(event_handle+0xb5) [0x41b875] > awesome() [0x40e846] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libev.so.4(ev_invoke_pending+0x55) > [0x7f856d60ce45] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libev.so.4(ev_run+0x907) [0x7f856d60ffe7] > awesome(main+0x92f) [0x40e61f] > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f856caecec5] > awesome() [0x40e72e] > > > I'm using the default rc.lua in /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua > > I tried using dmenu but it didn't work either > > > Hope anyone has an idea to fix this. > > > >
