## About awesome
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
## Building and installation
After extracting the dist tarball, run:
make
This will create a build directory, run cmake in it and build awesome.
After building is finished, you can either install via make install
:
make install # you might need root permissions
or by auto-generating a .deb or .rpm package, for easy removal later on:
make package sudo dpkg -i awesome-x.y.z.deb # or sudo rpm -Uvh awesome-x.y.z.rpm
### Build dependencies
Awesome has the following dependencies (besides a more-or-less standard POSIX environment):
- [CMake >= 3.0.0](https://cmake.org) - [Lua >= 5.1.0](https://www.lua.org) or [LuaJIT](http://luajit.org) - [LGI >= 0.7.1](https://github.com/pavouk/lgi) - [xproto >= 7.0.15](https://www.x.org/archive//individual/proto/) - [libxcb >= 1.6](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) with support for the RandR, XTest, Xinerama, SHAPE and XKB extensions - [libxcb-cursor](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) - [libxcb-util >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) - [libxcb-keysyms >= 0.3.4](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) - [libxcb-icccm >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) - [xcb-util-xrm >= 1.0](https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm) - [libxkbcommon](http://xkbcommon.org/) with X11 support enabled - [libstartup-notification >= 0.10](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification/) - [cairo](https://www.cairographics.org/) with support for XCB and GObject introspection - [Pango](http://www.pango.org/) with support for Cairo and GObject introspection - [GLib](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib) with support for GObject introspection - [GIO](https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/) with support for GObject introspection - [GdkPixbuf](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GdkPixbuf) - libX11 with xcb support - [Imagemagick's convert utility](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) - [libxdg-basedir >= 1.0.0](https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir)
Additionally, the following optional dependencies exist:
- [DBus](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/) for DBus integration
and the awesome-client
utility
- [asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/) and
[xmlto](https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/) for generating man pages
- [gzip](http://www.gzip.org/) for compressing man pages
- [ldoc](https://stevedonovan.github.io/ldoc/) for generating the documentation
- [busted](https://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for running unit tests
- [luacheck](https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck) for static code analysis
- [LuaCov](https://keplerproject.github.io/luacov/) for collecting code coverage
information
- libexecinfo on systems where libc does not provide backtrace_symbols()
to
generate slightly better backtraces on crashes
- Xephyr
or Xvfb
for running integration tests
## Running awesome
You can directly select awesome from your display manager. If not, you can
add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx
or to .xsession
to start awesome using your display manager:
exec awesome
In order to connect awesome to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY
environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec awesome
(This will start awesome on display :1
of the host foo.bar.)
## Configuration
The configuration of awesome is done by creating a
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua
file, typically ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
.
An example configuration named awesomerc.lua.in
is provided in the source.
## Troubleshooting
On most systems any message printed by awesome (including warnings and errors)
is written to ~/.xsession-errors
.
If awesome does not start or the configuration file is not producing the desired results the user should examine this file to gain insight into the problem.
### Debugging tips
You can call awesome with gdb
like this:
DISPLAY=:2 gdb awesome
Then in gdb set any args and run it:
(gdb) set arg --replace (gdb) run
Inside gdb you can use the following to print the current Lua stack traceback:
(gdb) print luaL_dostring(globalconf.L.real_L_dont_use_directly, "print(debug.traceback())")
## Reporting issues
Please report any issues you may find on [our bugtracker](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues). You can submit pull requests on the [github repository](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome). Please read the [contributing guide](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/docs/02-contributing.md) for any coding, documentation or patch guidelines.
## Status [](https://travis-ci.org/awesomeWM/awesome)
## Documentation
Online documentation is available at https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/.
## License
The project is licensed under GNU General Publice License v2 or later. You can read it online at ([v2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) or [v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)).