friar

Fennel Repl In Awesome Repl

What?

Interact with your running AwesomeWM session from inside Emacs, using Fennel, a lua-based Lisp.

Interested in using Fennel for writing your own AwesomeWM configuration? Check the starter-kit included in this repo. It contains an rc.lua that bootstraps loading the provided config.fnl file, which is a line-for-line translation of the default AwesomeWM configuration.

Installation

Via use-package with straight.el:

(use-package friar 
  :straight (:host github :repo "warreq/friar" :branch "master"
	     :files (:defaults "*.lua" "*.fnl")))

Usage

M-x friar and he's ready to serve you.

Troubleshooting

I can't connect to AwesomeWM (D-Bus error)

Try slapping this into your .xinitrc to ensure you have a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, which Emacs needs in order to connect to your D-Bus.

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
  eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

Make sure dbus-launch exists on your path -- you may need to install a package like dbus-x11.