Awesome Cheatsheet
Shortcuts (Mod4 it’s a Windows key)
Window manager control
- Mod4 + Control + r - Restart awesome.
- Mod4 + Shift + q - Quit awesome.
- Mod4 + r - Run prompt.
- Mod4 + p - Run prompt with suggestion.
- Mod4 + x - Run Lua code prompt.
- Mod4 + Return - Spawn terminal emulator.
- Mod4 + w - Open main menu.
Clients
- Mod4 + Shift + r - Redraw the focused window.
- Mod4 + m - Maximize client.
- Mod4 + n - Minimize client.
- Mod4 + f - Set client fullscreen.
- Mod4 + Shift + c - Kill focused client.
- Mod4 + t - Mark a client.
Navigation
- Mod4 + j - Focus next client.
- Mod4 + k - Focus previous client.
- Mod4 + u - Focus first urgent client.
- Mod4 + Left - View previous tag.
- Mod4 + Right - View next tag.
- Mod4 + 1-9 - Switch to tag 1-9.
- Mod4 + Control + j - Focus next screen.
- Mod4 + Control + k - Focus previous screen.
- Mod4 + Escape - Focus previously selected tag set.
Layout modification
- Mod4 + Shift + j - Switch client with next client.
- Mod4 + Shift + k - Switch client with previous client.
- Mod4 + o - Send client to next screen.
- Mod4 + h - Decrease master width factor by 5%.
- Mod4 + l - Increase master width factor by 5%.
- Mod4 + Shift + h - Increase number of master windows by 1.
- Mod4 + Shift + l - Decrease number of master windows by 1.
- Mod4 + Control + h - Increase number of columns for non-master windows by 1.
- Mod4 + Control + l - Decrease number of columns for non-master windows by 1.
- Mod4 + space - Switch to next layout.
- Mod4 + Shift + space - Switch to previous layout.
- Mod4 + Control + space - Toggle client floating status.
- Mod4 + Control + Return - Swap focused client with master.
- Mod4 + Control + 1-9 - Toggle tag view.
- Mod4 + Shift + 1-9 - Tag client with tag.
- Mod4 + Shift + Control + 1-9 - Toggle tag on client.
- Mod4 + Shift + F1-9 - Tag marked clients with tag.