awesome ======= awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. Requirements ------------ In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of: - cmake - Xlib, xcb and xcb-util - Lua 5.1 - cairo - pango and pangocairo - libev - glib - GdkPixBuf or Imlib2 (use -DWITH_IMLIB2=ON with cmake) - dbus (optional, use -DWITH_DBUS=OFF with cmake to disable) - gperf In order to build the awesome man pages and documentation, you need these tools: - asciidoc - xmlto - docbook XSL stylesheets - luadoc In order to build the source code reference, you need these tools: - doxygen - graphviz Building and Installation ------------------------- After extracting the dist tarball, run: make This will create a build directory, run cmake in it and build awesome. After the building done, you can type this to install: make install # might need root permissions Running awesome ----------- Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...: exec awesome In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) Configuration ------------- The configuration of awesome is done by creating a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua file. An example is provided in the sources.