3 awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
8 In order to build awesome you need the Xlib header files and libconfig.
12 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (awesome is installed into
13 the /usr/local namespace by default).
15 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install awesome (if
22 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
23 or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...:
27 In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
28 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
30 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
32 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
34 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
35 like this in your .xinitrc:
39 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`
46 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a ~/.awesomerc file.
47 An example is provided in the sources.