some more seperations of settings

.config/awesome/functions.lua

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+function file_exists(name)
+    local f = io.open(name, "r")
+    if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end
+end
+
+function run_once(cmd)
+    findme = cmd
+    firstspace = cmd:find(" ")
+    if firstspace then
+        findme = cmd:sub(0, firstspace-1)
+    end
+    awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -u $USER -x " .. findme .. " > /dev/null || (" .. cmd .. ")")
+end
+
+function tablelength(T)
+    local count = 0
+    for _ in pairs(T) do count = count + 1 end
+    return count
+end
+