rc.lua.patch

This patch adds the necessary changes to create and manage tags shareable on
all screens when using the awesome window manager version 4.0.

The library and all relevant documentation can be found at
https://github.com/Drauthius/awesome-sharedtags

--- orig/rc.lua	2016-01-01 13:45:26.000000000 +0100
+++ sharedtags/rc.lua	2016-01-05 20:09:21.428836239 +0100
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 end
 -- }}}
 
+-- {{{ Local extensions
+local sharedtags = require("sharedtags")
+-- }}}
+
 -- {{{ Variable definitions
 -- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
 beautiful.init(awful.util.get_themes_dir() .. "default/theme.lua")
@@ -90,6 +94,18 @@
 end
 -- }}}
 
+-- {{{ Tags
+local tags = sharedtags({
+    { name = "main", layout = awful.layout.layouts[2] },
+    { name = "www", layout = awful.layout.layouts[10] },
+    { name = "game", layout = awful.layout.layouts[1] },
+    { name = "misc", layout = awful.layout.layouts[2] },
+    { name = "chat", screen = 2, layout = awful.layout.layouts[2] },
+    { layout = awful.layout.layouts[2] },
+    { screen = 2, layout = awful.layout.layouts[2] }
+})
+-- }}}
+
 -- {{{ Menu
 -- Create a launcher widget and a main menu
 myawesomemenu = {
@@ -181,8 +197,9 @@
     -- Wallpaper
     set_wallpaper(s)
 
-    -- Each screen has its own tag table.
-    awful.tag({ "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" }, s, awful.layout.layouts[1])
+    -- Assign tags to the newly connected screen here,
+    -- if desired:
+    --sharedtags.viewonly(tags[4], s)
 
     -- Create a promptbox for each screen
     s.mypromptbox = awful.widget.prompt()
@@ -386,9 +403,9 @@
         awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
                   function ()
                         local screen = awful.screen.focused()
-                        local tag = screen.tags[i]
+                        local tag = tags[i]
                         if tag then
-                           tag:view_only()
+                           sharedtags.viewonly(tag, screen)
                         end
                   end,
                   {description = "view tag #"..i, group = "tag"}),
@@ -396,9 +413,9 @@
         awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                   function ()
                       local screen = awful.screen.focused()
-                      local tag = screen.tags[i]
+                      local tag = tags[i]
                       if tag then
-                         awful.tag.viewtoggle(tag)
+                         sharedtags.viewtoggle(tag, screen)
                       end
                   end,
                   {description = "toggle tag #" .. i, group = "tag"}),
@@ -406,7 +423,7 @@
         awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                   function ()
                       if client.focus then
-                          local tag = client.focus.screen.tags[i]
+                          local tag = tags[i]
                           if tag then
                               client.focus:move_to_tag(tag)
                           end
@@ -417,7 +434,7 @@
         awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                   function ()
                       if client.focus then
-                          local tag = client.focus.screen.tags[i]
+                          local tag = tags[i]
                           if tag then
                               client.focus:toggle_tag(tag)
                           end
@@ -483,9 +500,9 @@
       }, properties = { titlebars_enabled = true }
     },
 
-    -- Set Firefox to always map on the tag named "2" on screen 1.
+    -- Set Firefox to always map on the tag named "2".
     -- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
-    --   properties = { screen = 1, tag = "2" } },
+    --   properties = { tag = tags[2] } }, -- tag = tags["www"] works as well
 }
 -- }}}