KDE and awesome

KDE has the KDEWM environment variable that allows you to specify an alternativ window manager to use.

The following is unverified:

just create a new script called something like:

~/.kde/env/set_window_manager.sh

containing

export KDEWM=awesome 

and make it executable chmod +x ~/.kde/env/set_window_manager.sh

I made a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98mine containing just:

export KDEWM=awesome

But this is not recommended since it sets this variable for all users of the system (which is only me on my laptop).

I made some screenshots.

Disable Plasma

Remove or rename /usr/share/autostart/plasma.desktop

Fix Systray

Tray icons of some KDE applications won't show up in awesome's systray because they use the KDE status notifier. If you disable this service (System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager > uncheck "Status Notifier Manager") all the icons should appear. Tip taken from Tint2 Wiki.

Logout / Shutdown

Install kshutdown, also available as Debian package.