My awesomewm menu.lua : Random Geekery

My awesomewm application menu.

local awful = require("awful")
local hotkeys_popup = require("awful.hotkeys_popup").widget
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
local freedesktop = require("freedesktop")

local M = {}

Awesome-specific actions

The most important stuff — interacting with Awesome itself.

M.awesome = {
  {
    "hotkeys",
    function()
      hotkeys_popup.show_help(nil, awful.screen.focused())
    end
  },
  { "manual", RC.vars.terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
  { "edit config", RC.vars.editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
  { "restart", awesome.restart },
  { "quit", function() awesome.quit() end },
}

Applications

I let freedesktop build the menu via XDG-related settings. That’s the stuff already in my KDE application menu. It just loads straight over. I’ll put awesome_menu at the top and a quick entry for loading my preferred terminal emulator at the bottom.

M.main = freedesktop.menu.build(
  {
    before = {
      { "awesome", M.awesome, beautiful.awesome_icon },
    },
    after = {
      { "Terminal", RC.vars.terminal },
    },
  }
)

return M