Hello Markus,
The new Ubuntu release is the first (LTS) to ship with the 3.5 version
of Awesome. This version has indeed some changes to how minimized
clients work compared to 3.4. It is hard to minimize clients because
GNOME 3 doesn't really want you to do that.
In the default Awesome config, you can unminimze clients by clicking
on them in the tasklist or adding a new shortcut. In your case, given
you probably disable the widget bar to use the gnome provided by
GNOME, you removed the only way to unminimize clients.
Pressing mod4+n twice will not unminimze clients because it act on the
focused clients and a minimized client, by definition, cannot have the
focus. There was a bug at some point that bypassed this and made it
work anyway, but it was a bug, not a feature. To unminimize a random
client, you can use:
for _,c in client.get() do
if c.minimized then c.minimized = false; break; end
end
In a shortcut. If you added some kind of minimize widget to GNOME
taskbar and it still doesn't work, then this is something else.
Minimizing seem to work fine without GNOME. Commit 02be8943 may or may
not have caused a regression in GNOME, but it hasn't elsewhere, so the
issue may (or may not) be on their side.
On 22 April 2016 at 14:35, Markus Gutschke <mar...@gutschke.com> wrote:
> I have been using awesome for many years. I install it as the window manager
> in a GNOME fallback session on Ubuntu. In other words, I have all of the
> GNOME session manager, and I have the old-school GNOME panel. But everything
> else is awesome.
>
> This has worked beautifully for as long as I can remember. But today, I
> decided to update to the new Ubuntu LTS release (Xenial). The upgrade went
> surprisingly uneventful. After waiting for an hour, the computer rebooted
> and at first sight, everything looked exactly the same as before. That's
> good!
>
> Well, until I tried to minimize windows (either from the gnome-panel, or
> using Mod-n). The window minimizes just fine, but I can't figure out how to
> restore it. As far as I can tell, un-minimize has absolutely no effect. I
> installed the most recent version of awesome, and still no improvement.
>
> I am a bit at a loss how to debug this problem. Does anybody have a
> suggestion of where I should even start looking?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Markus
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