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By: Install Window Manager in Ubuntu | TurboLinux Blog

Install Window Manager in Ubuntu | TurboLinux Blog — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:21:07 +0000

[...] Here is a good tutorial show you how to Install Window Manager in Ubuntu: Today I had a go at installing awesome window manager. awesome is a great tiling window manager, useful if you have a large monitor and are fed up with having one window taking up all the space when it doesn’t really need it all. For example, having firefox maximised on a 1920×1200 resolution monitor can mean you end up with very large sentences that spread across the screen, decreasing readability. Unfortunately the version of awesome in the Interpid repos is 2.3.2-1, which is now deprecated, and the current stable release is version 3.1-1. [...]

By: smile_x

smile_x — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:09:00 +0000

@lulzut/zadok: my solution was to create a `~/bin/awesome.sh` and adding it to `gnome-session-properties`:

#!/bin/bash
killall metacity; awesome &

GNOME doesn’t seem to care much about the `awesome` entry in `/desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list`. This workaround helped me out in various Ubuntu versions (now Maverick). Previously I had to do a `killall awesome; awesome &`, it depends on which window manager actually is running.

By: lulzut

lulzut — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:17:30 +0000

@zadok: Same here: After logging out and back in i have awesome active but zero keybindings active so i am stuck with defaultpositions and everything and the gnomedesktop. terribel.

By: one way links

one way links — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 06:03:54 +0000

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By: zadok regex

zadok regex — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:26:11 +0000

Thank you for the amazing tutorial. However, changing the windowmanager key to awesome didn’t work on my system. Instead, no window manager loads. Any ideas?

By: [all variants] Add another DE option at startup for Awesome? - oBlurb

[all variants] Add another DE option at startup for Awesome? - oBlurb — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:49:14 +0000

[...] on Ubuntu. And my Google-fu is apparently weak, all I could find that looked remotely helpful was this article. It’s outdated, and it replaces/changes Gnome, something I’d like to [...]

By: Mickey

Mickey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:20:23 +0000

#!/bin/bash

# Mickey Ju, August 7, 2010
# this batch file is created for installing awesome-3.4.6 on brand new Ubuntu 10
# move this file into the folder in which you are going to build awesome.
# usually, that’s the untarred awesome downloaded package.
# do chmod command so that the owner has the execution privilege.
# usually, that would be chmod 744 awesome.sh
# use sudo ./awesome.sh to carry out the following commands to build awesome.

# if you mean to compile the package on your own and see a list of missing
# packages, you can just use sudo apt-get install libPACKAGE_NAME* or
# sudo apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME* to search for the suitable packages.
# And then press ‘n’ to cancel the installation and do another apt-get install
# to choose and install the *-dev packages accordingly.
# if you are on suse 11.3 you can use sudo zypper search PACKAGE_NAME instead.

# after the compilation and installation have been done, the gconf-editor will
# be brought up for you. Follow the comments in the end of this file to set
# awsome to be the default window manager for you. And this is for Ubuntu with
# gdm as the display manager. Creating .xinitrc and .xsession in the home
# folder was just not working for some reason.

# opinions are more than welcome. Please send them to MickeyJu@gmail.com

#apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install cmake
apt-get -y install g++
# libstdc++6-4.4-dev is the dependency of g++
#apt-get -y install libstdc++6-4.4-dev
apt-get -y install gperf
apt-get -y install libglib2.0-dev
apt-get -y install libcairo2-dev
apt-get -y install libpango1.0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-randr0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-xtest0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-xinerama0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-shape0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-event1-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-aux0-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-atom1-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-keysyms1-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-icccm1-dev
apt-get -y install libxcb-image0-dev
apt-get -y install libstartup-notification0-dev
apt-get -y install libimlib2-dev
apt-get -y install libxdg-basedir-dev
apt-get -y install libev-dev
apt-get -y install liblua5.1-0-dev

make
make install

mkdir ~/.config/awesome/
cp /usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ~/.config/awesome/

gconf-editor
# /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list # remove panel
# /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop # uncheck
# /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default # /usr/local/bin/awesome
# or the directory containing the awesome executable.
# log out and log back in.
# if it doesn’t apply, launch another terminal and do it (gconf-editor and loggin out) again.

By: Howard Tiogangco

Howard Tiogangco — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:15:21 +0000

you do write some very complete posts. You suffer from the same disease I do. Want to get the whole story out there and tie it up with a bow all pretty.

By: Naresh V

Naresh V — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:17:53 +0000

You may use the following in your sources.list now

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/aguignard/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/aguignard/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

and

aptitude install awesome

By: alexmajy

alexmajy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:21:25 +0000

finally, it works now, just try the tips on wiki of official website

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome