3 awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
9 In order to build awesome you need the Xlib header files, libconfuse and cairo.
10 Creating the man pages also requires recent versions of the asciidoc and xmlto
15 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (awesome is installed into
16 the /usr/local namespace by default).
18 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install awesome (if
25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
26 or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...:
30 In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
31 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
33 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
35 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
39 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a ~/.awesomerc file.
40 An example is provided in the sources.