AwesomeWM on Raspberry Pi "Error Nil at Screen Connect"

Question

I have Arch installed on my raspberry pi and am trying to use AwesomeWM. It works with the basic config, but when I try to use my modified version of copycats copland theme I get this error on the following line.

"Error Nil at Screen Connect"
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(function(s) beautiful.at_screen_connect(s) end)
-- }}}

I had a similar issue with i3 on it with raspbian and I think the issue is due to the pi not having a lvds display. Is there anyway to fix this issue on the pi? This config works just fine on my laptop.

Answer 1

I had the same issue last night. There's some issue with the lain, noted here that is resulting in every single awesome copycat theme save the last being broken. While there are solutions are that issue on updating the version of Glib, I found it much simpler to revert to an earlier checkout of lain.

To do this, cd into the lain folder. Then run

git checkout -b SAFE_COMMIT_HASH

I personally ran

git checkout -b 35856d49a249cdfff09439fde73351b12ed8576c

I chose a commit in January to be safe because it was late and I wanted to be done.

All I had to do after this was reboot my Awesome shell and everything went back to working order.