How to get the PID of awesome-wm

Question

I'm trying to get the Process ID of my Awesome Windows Manager and failing miserably at it. Of the examples below I also tried using "awesome-wm" as my search string. I'm pretty sure there is an obvious solution to this.

So far I've tried:

$ pgrep awesome
$ pidof awesome

I also tried:

$ ps ax | grep awesome
$ xprop _NET_WM_PID

With no luck, no output, no PID (xprop desktop click outputs "_NET_WM_PID: not found."). I'm certain its running, because its where I'm performing these tests in. Any ideas?

PS: Im running AWM under Crunchbang, a fork off Debian, if I run:

$ awesome -v && uname -a

I get:

awesome debian/3.4.13-1 (Octopus)
• Build: Jul 16 2012 13:57:50 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.7.1 (@keller)
• D-Bus support: ✔
Linux tzl 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

As it turns out the answer was that SLiM, which #! uses to control its Window Managers is using x-session-manager.

The name of the process I was looking for was not 'awesome', it was 'x-session-manager'.

So a quick:

$ wmctrl -m

Returned:

Name: awesome
Class: N/A
PID: 3091
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A

Solving my PID troubles.

Answer 2

How about trying:

ps -e | grep awesome

This should list all of the processes in your computer and then you can search for awesome using grep.