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Bug 706290 - x11-wm/awesome-9999 : starting any program throws: /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/client.lua:1579: badargument #-1 to ? (string expected. got nil)
Summary: x11-wm/awesome-9999 : starting any program throws: /usr/share/awesome/lib/awf...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
URL: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/...
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Reported: 2020-01-25 11:17 UTC by Manfred Knick
Modified: 2021-01-18 10:05 UTC (History)
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Description Manfred Knick 2020-01-25 11:17:15 UTC 
Regression from x11-wm/awesome-4.3-r1:0 :

Ooops, an error happened!

/usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/client.lua:1579: 
           badargument #-1 to ? (string expected. got nil)

# ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^

Backgropund:

- Running a four-monitor-setup @ GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti]

- xrandr works;
- but even without xrandr setup:

- simply starting "open terminal" from awesome menu throws above error

- starting apps via "wmctrl -s nn" fails:
- - all apps start on the current tab,
- - each of them throws above error




Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Manfred Knick 2020-01-25 11:27:51 UTC 
@ Gentoo Linux bug wranglers:

  The stated maintainer Maxim Koltsov <maksbotan@gentoo.org> 
  had been unresponive for ~ 8 months

Ref.:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/687376#c9  -  Thanks to Ben Kohler
Comment 2 Manfred Knick 2020-01-25 13:34:01 UTC 
REFERENCE: Reported Upstream:

    Issue #2973
  [ https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/2973 ]
Comment 3 Marek Szuba archtester gentoo-dev 2021-01-18 10:05:08 UTC 
According to the upstream issue this has already been fixed.