errorhandling.lua

-- Requirements (made global):
-- local naughty = require("naughty")

-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
    naughty.notify({
        preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
        title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
        text = awesome.startup_errors
    })
end

-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
    local in_error = false
    awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
        -- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
        if in_error then return end
        in_error = true

        naughty.notify({
            preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
            title = "Oops, an error happened!",
            text = tostring(err)
        })
        in_error = false
    end)
end