3 awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
7 In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of:
8 - Xlib, Xinerama, Xrandr, Xft
12 In order to build the awesome man pages, you need these tools:
13 - asciidoc (recent version)
14 - xmlto (recent version)
15 - docbook XSL stylesheets
17 In order to build the source code reference, you need these tools:
21 Building and Installation
22 -------------------------
23 If building from git sources, run "./autogen.sh". When autoreconf has
24 finished, you can follow the following instructions for building a dist
27 After extracting the dist tarball, run "./configure --help" and figure out
28 what you might want to adapt for your system. Then run ./configure with the
29 proper parameters, and build and install:
33 make install # might need root permissions
35 If you're using gcc as your compiler and do not want awesome's default set
36 of warning flags, add AWESOME_CFLAGS="" to your "make" lines.
38 The source code reference can be built with "make doc".
42 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
43 or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...:
47 In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
48 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
50 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
52 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
56 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a ~/.awesomerc file.
57 An example is provided in the sources.