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, xcb and xcb-util. - Lua 5.1 - cairo - pango and pangocairo - libev - glib - GdkPixBuf or Imlib2 (use --with-imlib2 with ./configure) - dbus (optional, use --with-dbus=no with ./configure to disable) - gperf In order to build the awesome man pages and documentation, you need these tools: - asciidoc (recent version) - xmlto (recent version) - 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: cmake . make make install # might need root permissions 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.lua file. An example is provided in the sources.