3 awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
7 In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of:
14 - cairo built with xcb support
15 - pango and pangocairo
18 - dbus (optional, use -DWITH_DBUS=OFF with cmake to disable)
21 In order to build the awesome man pages and documentation,
25 - docbook XSL stylesheets
28 In order to build the source code reference, you need these tools:
32 Building and installation
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34 After extracting the dist tarball, run:
38 This will create a build directory, run cmake in it and build awesome.
40 After the building done, you can type this to install:
42 make install # might need root permissions
46 You can directly select awesome from your display manager. If not, you can
47 add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
48 or to .xsession to start awesome using your display manager:
52 In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
53 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
55 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
57 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
61 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua file.
62 An example is provided in the sources.
66 In most systems any message printed by awesome (including warnings and errors)
67 are written to $HOME/.xsession-errors.
69 If awesome does not start or the configuration file is not producing the desired
70 results the user should examine this file to gain insight into the problem.