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: - Xlib, Xinerama, Xrandr - libconfuse >= 2.6 - cairo - pango and pangocairo - GTK+ or Imlib2 (use --with-imlib2 with ./configure) - dbus In order to build the awesome man pages, you need these tools: - asciidoc (recent version) - xmlto (recent version) - docbook XSL stylesheets In order to build the source code reference, you need these tools: - doxygen - graphviz Building and Installation ------------------------- If building from git sources, run "./autogen.sh". When autoreconf has finished, you can follow the following instructions for building a dist tarball. After extracting the dist tarball, run "./configure --help" and figure out what you might want to adapt for your system. Then run ./configure with the proper parameters, and build and install: ./configure [...] make make install # might need root permissions If you're using gcc as your compiler and do not want awesome's default set of warning flags, add AWESOME_CFLAGS="" to your "make" lines. The source code reference can be built with "make doc". 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 ~/.awesomerc file. An example is provided in the sources.