Ubuntu – How to get unity-2d-launcher to integrate with Awesome WM

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I really like the unity launcher, but in Awesome it only displays on Tag 1, and sometimes pops up behind other windows. Has anyone figured out a way to get this to work?

Best Answer

Using the suggestion by Marco in his comment, make the Unity launcher sticky. Look in your rc.lua file (which should be in ~/.config/awesome/) for the section that starts with: 

-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {

and then add the following awful rule

{ rule = { class = "Unity-2d-launcher" },
properties = { sticky = true } },

For example, you can add that rule right before the last line of the section which is -- }}}. Save your changes and before restarting Awesome, remember to type awesome -k in the terminal to check and confirm the correctness of the syntax of your rc.lua.

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