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 If building from git sources, run "./autogen.sh". When autoreconf has
16 finished, you can follow the following instructions for building a dist
19 After extracting the dist tarball, run "./configure --help" and figure out
20 what you might want to adapt for your system. Then run ./configure with the
21 proper parameters, and build and install:
25 make install # might need root permissions
27 If you're using gcc as your compiler and do not want awesome's default set
28 of warning flags, add AWESOME_CFLAGS="" to your "make" lines.
32 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
33 or to .xsession to start awesome using gdm/kdm/xdm...:
37 In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
38 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
40 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
42 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
46 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a ~/.awesomerc file.
47 An example is provided in the sources.