Settings for the awesome windows manager

Last modified: tis feb 06, 2024 10:37
Sign: JN

Description

Some notes about my settings of the awesome window manager.

Installation

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.

Note Feb 2024: The deb package provided by Ubuntu 22.04 is old and I recently had issues. Try instead to install from source.

# Old deb from apt sources would have been: `sudo apt install awesome awesome-extra`
# Build your own deb from source:

$ sudo apt build-dep awesome
$ sudo apt install libxcb-xfixes0-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/awesomewm/awesome
$ cd awesome
$ make package
$ cd build
$ sudo apt install ./*.deb

Also, make sure there is a file /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awesomeWM/awesome/master/awesome.desktop | sudo tee /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

Local configuration:

$ cd ~/.config
$ git clone https://github.com/nylander/awesome.git
$ cd ~/.config/awesome
$ git clone https://github.com/mokasin/apw.git
$ git clone https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-freedesktop.git freedesktop

# Note the freedesktop clone is not configured. Need to make sure I've cloned the correct branch (for 3.5.X)
# ADD MORE DESCRIPTION HERE

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NuckChorris/assault/master/awesomewm/assault.lua

# Note, assault.lua (Battery indicator) may need some local configuration
# ADD MORE DESCRIPTION HERE

For additional packages

$ sudo apt install vim-gnome chromium-browser blueman network-manager-gnome cool-retro-term

Files

rc.lua - The main user resource file. Put in ~/.config/awesome/
theme.lua - System theme file. Put in /usr/share/awesome/themes/default/
bin/termx - Launcher of gnome-terminal with random profiles. Put in ~/bin/ # ADD MORE DESCRIPTION HERE
wallpapers/ - Folder with Desktop backround images. Put in ~/.config/awesome/
~/.xsession-errors - Error messages fro debugging.