Arch Linux

= How to install awesome =

Awesome 3
You can install the latest stable version from the official repository:


 * 1) pacman -S awesome

Awesome-git
There is a PKGBUILD for awesome-git in the AUR. There are several ways to install it.

The easiest is to use "yaourt" (also available in the AUR). If you have yaourt installed, simply:
 * 1) yaourt -S awesome-git

Or you can do it manually, and get the PKGBUILD here.

Create a new directory called "awesome-git" somewhere, put the PKGBUILD in there, and run: Note: the -i flag automatically installs it aswell, to just create the package without installing first, remove that flag.
 * 1) makepkg -fi

= How to start awesome =

Setup xinitrc
Setup ~/.xinitrc file, add line for start awesome

exec awesome

Setup for Slim
1) Edit slim.conf for start awesome session, add awesome to sessions line

sessions              awesome,wmii,xmonad

2) Edit ~/.xinitrc file

DEFAULT_SESSION=awesome case $1 in awesome) exec awesome ;;  wmii) exec wmii ;; xmonad) exec xmonad ;; *) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac