Simply AWESOME. Mod+r box does autocomplete on hitting tab after the
first few characters.

Alejandro - it simply works for me. I looked at the rc.lua. It simply
has a promptbox and a run() used.

Can someone explain how autocompletion works in the mod+r prompt box?
-- Mohan Sundaram


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>

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