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44 lines
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awesome
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awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
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Building and installation
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After extracting the dist tarball, run:
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make
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This will create a build directory, run cmake in it and build awesome.
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After building is finished, you can install:
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make install # you might need root permissions
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Running awesome
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You can directly select awesome from your display manager. If not, you can
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add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
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or to .xsession to start awesome using your display manager:
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exec awesome
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In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
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the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
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(This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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Configuration
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The configuration of awesome is done by creating a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua file.
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An example configuration named "awesomerc.lua.in" is provided in the source.
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Troubleshooting
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In most systems any message printed by awesome (including warnings and errors)
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are written to $HOME/.xsession-errors.
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If awesome does not start or the configuration file is not producing the desired
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results the user should examine this file to gain insight into the problem.
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