How do I get AwesomeWM to switch to a tag?

Question

I currently have a rule so Iron opens on my 'www' tag, but how do I get Awesome to switch to that tag?

Answer 1

You can click on the www tag in the tag list (see man awesome and search for bindings), or you can take a look at these LUA functions if you want to do more (e.g. to set a shortcut for it):

• awful.tag.viewidx

• awful.tag.viewonly

Or if you want to switch to a tag once a rule is applied you can use this form:

{ rule = { class = "Iron" } ,
  properties = { tag = tags[1][3] , switchtotag = true } }

Answer 2

Added this to rc.lua before the menu:

function load_prog(cmd, tag)
   awful.tag.viewonly(tags[1][tag])
   awful.util.spawn(cmd)
end

And then in the menu:

{ "Iron", function () load_prog("iron", 3) end }