In awesomeWM (horizontal) branch, there's a typo in theme.lua which was sabotaging the execution for me; Image below <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63d570e8-5704-477d-9ecb-e8cff08c146c" /> `theme.fg_focus = theme.fg_nromal`
In awesomeWM (horizontal) branch, there's a typo in theme.lua which was sabotaging the execution for me; Image below
theme.fg_focus = theme.fg_nromal