PocketHome can't return to running processes

[FIXMESTEVE]

On the original PocketHome by NTC and on Marshmallow, if you open a program (terminal/sunvox/pico8...) and then push the home button on the PocketCHIP keyboard, the app is put in the foreground (and paused IIRC?) and PocketHome appears. From here on, touching the icon of the program that was already running brings it back on screen.

However, with PocketDesk, when pushing the home button when in a program:

• the program is not paused - sound from the running program can still be heard
• touching the icon of the previous program starts a new instance
• you have to killall previously running programs (because music and sounds of multiple pico8 games overlap will overlap)

[Adzetko]

Same is happening to me, for exemple, if on PocketHome I launch terminal, then I push the home menu button, if I click again on the terminal logo, it will launch a second instance (it's obvious to see it when alt-tabbing)

[fafrd]

I've figured out a workaround; get lightdm to start 'awesome' instead of 'pocket-wm'.

cd /usr/share/xsessions
sudo mv pocket-wm.desktop pocket-wm.desktop.backup
sudo mv awesome.desktop.backup awesome.desktop

Then log out, pick 'awesome' as the desktop, log in.

After doing some research, apparently pockethome is a modification of the 'awesome' window manager. I'm not sure why pocketdesk launches pocket-wm instead of awesome, or why that prevents the Home button from working.... maybe it's because configuration scripts in ~/.config/awesome are getting bypassed?

[Adzetko]

Nice! It almost worked for me, I had just to modify the awesome.desktop file to erase the "NoDisplay=true".

If in the login screen, awesome does not appear, just run

sudo nano /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

and remove the line about NoDisplay.

But my awesome session is a vanilla Awesome desktop, there's no PocketHome in here. Does anyone know how to start PocketHome from Awesome?

[rxvincent]

Try to download my modified rc.lua from https://github.com/rxvincent/PocketDesk/blob/master/files/rc.lua
by wget or something else. And place it in /etc/xdg/awesome/.

Just like sudo wget -O /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua https://github.com/rxvincent/PocketDesk/raw/master/files/rc.lua
Remember to make a backup of the original file, I tried on my pocketChip and it should work. When choosing awesome in login screen. It will run PocketHome automatically.

Also in application like text or file manager, press TAB + CTRL to switch between running application. And you can press CTRL while click on screen. It would recognize as a Right Click.

I should explain that , all of this function is written by @AllGray ,you can find the rc.lua in this project too. But I think his lua script is directly copy from text editing application such as nano. So in each line, when the sentence length is over a number, other word would be replaced by '$' , which made this script totally unusable. I just make a guess and try to fill it. There still some function I can barely recognize what it want to do.