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awesome (Dynamic Window Manager) as a WM for Slackware
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. Primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment. It is very fast and heavily extensible using the Lua programming language.
Licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
Dependencies
Prior to installing awesome, you will need the following dependencies installed first:
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- lua is a dependency for lgi.
note: All of the above are available at slackbuilds.org
Installation
If you have installed all of the above dependencies, you can now proceed with the build of awesome.
Grab the slackbuild from here (slackbuilds.org).
Build it.
And then install the produced package.
Starting awesome
Exit X server and run xwmconfig. Choose awesome from the menu and run startx to start X server again.
Links
- Home page: awesome.naquadah.org
- Configuration: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome_3_configuration