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Awesome WM: workaround for gnome or mate panel stealing focus

Tobias Kraze
December 01, 2016Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you use awesome 3.5, and a gnome or mate panel, the panel will often receive focus when you switch desktops. As a workaround:

  1. Add this rule to your rc.lua:
    { rule = { class = "Mate-panel" }, properties = { ontop = true, focusable = false } }
    
  2. Replace /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/autofocus.lua with the attached file
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Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2016-12-01 18:30)