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I have aliases in my bashrc for a few programs.

One example is: alias chrome='google-chrome --disk-cache-size=1000000000'

How can I call this alias from the run prompt (modkey+r)?

Im running linux mint

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awful.util.spawn doesn't spawn a shell and it won't work with awful.util.spawn_with_shell because the shell has to be interactive to check for aliases. But you could spawn a shell which executes a command in interactive mode, e.g. 

#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_aliases
eval "$@"

you could also edit your ~/.xinitrc, and before the «exec awesome» add something like

source ~/.bashrc

This will work with startx. If you use a display manager, changes should be added in /etc/X11/Xsession.d

Either inside the awesome or the aliases scripts.

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Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118693

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  • Excuse me for asking but what kind of changes in /etc/X11/Xsession.d? I'm not clear on what exactly I would be doing with this. – user1028270 Feb 26 '14 at 12:55
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    In Xsession.d there is an "aliases" script and an awesome script... Both should be called when you start awesome with a desktop manager. You add your global aliases there, or make a call to your user aliases script. – xvan Mar 04 '14 at 19:22