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awesome
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awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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It's based on dwm.
Requirements
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In order to build awesome you need the Xlib header files, libconfuse and cairo.
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Creating the man pages also requires recent versions of the asciidoc and xmlto
tools.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (awesome is installed into
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the /usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install awesome (if
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necessary as root):
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make install
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Running awesome
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...:
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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 ~/.awesomerc file.
An example is provided in the sources.