"Awesome" Window Manager (Page 1 of 2)

Heres a brief tutorial and FAQ:

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/My_first_awesome
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/FAQ

The Awesome wiki of course also has other pages that may help you. If you have more specific setup questions, you could ask in this thread:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ig-thread/

In your rc.lua in the last section (Signals), just uncomment the line that looks like:

awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })

Reload your awesome config and voila you have titlebars. It has a close button and restore/maximize. I don't think there is a minimize though.

As for dragging windows, first make sure the window is floating, then just hold the Super (Windows) key and drag with the left mouse button.

Also I was just wondering how do you run autostarts?

Im gathering to remove GDM is to remove gdm from /etc/rc.conf?

Well, actually, it works if you choose the "execute client script" session in GDM (don't know the exact name in english).
If it still doesn't work, just ln xinitrc and xsessions.
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xeNULL if you really want to remove GDM you can remove the package, Debian doesn't use a rc.conf.

Haven't used GDM or Awesome in a long while. Can't recall if Awesome has it's own start file or not.

You should have an awesome or awesome.desktop file in your /usr/share/xsessions. Open it with a text editor and copy-pasta the contents here.

It might be just a simple matter of symlinking or telling GDM to read a script to launch startup apps before the wm is launched.

Last edited by gutterslob (2011-08-05 01:33:46)

thanks for that dartthwound =]

You can edit awesomewm's menu in rc.lua near the beginning, its starts something like:

-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
awesomemenu = {

As for icons, the menu doesn't have icons. Or are you talking about icons somewhere else?

Icons you see are with the Debian Menu, which is set by default in awesome.

You should visit those links if you want to learn more about awesome (which is really awesome) :
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ig-thread/
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page

I could give you my menu for example but if you have awesome < 3.4.9 it won't fit. (I have awesome 3.4.10)

edit : forgive my english if it's bad, I'm quite tired tonight.

Last edited by DarthWound (2011-08-05 21:26:43)

right I have worked out [kinda] how to do shortcut keys although I prefer using gmrun and dmenu to execute programs. Anyone know why these commands are not working?

    awful.key({ modkey, "Alt"     }, "F2", function () awful.util.spawn(gmrun) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Alt"     }, "F3", function () awful.util.spawn(dmenu) end),

Last edited by xeNULL (2011-08-06 19:30:13)

lol didnt think of that. thanks =]

Well what do you mean fancy?

To align to the bottom, just look for this line in rc.lua:

mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })

And just change top to bottom and restart awesome.