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I'm using Awesome Windows Manager and two display (LVDS-1 as the secondary display in left and HDMI-1 as the main display in right). Awesome, by default duplicates screens and I want to switch focus on my display using the keyboard. It's now possible by moving the mouse cursor to each monitor.

Are there any hotkey commands or another way which does not require the mouse?

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Yes there should be.

Try Mod+Ctrl+j to focus the next screen.

Then Mod+Ctrl+k should focus the previous screen.

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    Also, look man awesome for all those things. Inside you can search (by pressing /, e.g. /screen will jump you to the relevant shortcuts). Commented Oct 2, 2018 at 12:25
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The commands to move the mouse from one screen to the next one are :

awful.screen.focus_relative (offset) 

or to a specific screen :

awful.screen.focus(_screen) 

See : https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/classes/screen.html

Example of a key binding :

-- to go to next screen awful.key({ modkey,}, "e", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(1) end) -- to active screen 2 awful.key({ shift, }, "z", function () awful.screen.focus(2) end) 

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