Comments on: Installing awesome Window Manager on Ubuntu Intrepid

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

By: alexmajy

alexmajy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:36:26 +0000

sorry, forget to check dmsg:

awesome[4530]: segfault at 18 ip b805c6ca sp bf89a514 error 4 in libxcb.so.1.1.0

but, i dont know why it’s ok to start it by hand …

By: alexmajy

alexmajy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:29:44 +0000

hi, it’s a great post. However, i got stuck while I was going to replace metacity with awesome:(

It seems useless after changing windowmanager field from ‘metacity’ to ‘awesome’, which means awesome doesn’t start after I logging the gdm. But I can set the vaule to ‘metacity’ and use the following command to start awesome without any error: killall metacity && awesome&

my laptop runs on Ubuntu 9.04

it’s really weird…

any hints would be appriciated

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:41:18 +0000

Found all debs here:

http://www.fingel.com/2009/04/awesome-window-manager-32-debs-for-ubuntu/

Just to let the googlers know.

Thanks for a Awesome guide Dave!

By: Awesome window manager on Ubuntu Intrepid « anderstornvig.dk

Awesome window manager on Ubuntu Intrepid « anderstornvig.dk — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:04:47 +0000

[...] found a great walk-through for doing this at http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/02/installing-awesome-window-manager-on-ubuntu-intrepid/. The links, however, were broken so now, I want to share the right ones with you [...]

By: Jonas Finnemann Jensen

Jonas Finnemann Jensen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:50:57 +0000

The new awesome 3.2 seems to require libxcb1 of version 1.1.92
A version 1.2 is available from debian repositories… But it seems to conflict with libxcb-xlib0, which seems to be a dependency of so many things that I probably shouldn’t remove it

Anyway, thanks for putting up the files… I’ll be trying 3.1
I don’t think 3.2 will compile without libxcb 1.1.92, which I probably shouldn’t try to replace…

Anybody else have any success with awesome 3.2 ?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:21:44 +0000

Cheers Anders – they seem to be changing around in the repos quite a lot though and go out of date pretty sharpish unfortunately. Will give them another update soon though.

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:19:11 +0000

Thanks a lot. Great help. Posted updates of your links here, though.
http://anderstornvig.tumblr.com/post/85930719/awesome-window-manager-on-ubuntu-intrepid