On Void Linux (case sensitive): sudo xbps-install base-devel libX11-devel libXft-devel libXinerama-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel.On OpenBSD: if Xenocara is installed, dependencies are already met.On Debian: sudo apt install build-essential libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev.

On Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S base-devel libx11 libxft libxinerama freetype2 fontconfig.

First and foremost, there is only one correct way to install dwm and other Suckless tools: from source (either straight from, or from your own build, or from someone else’s build, though I wouldn’t recommend that unless you really trust the person) and compile it yourself. It takes less than 500MB of RAM and only a few processes when it first starts up. It’s a tiling window manager with a minimalist design. Naughty.notify(, 'XF86AudioPlay', function()Ī suckless developers created DWM, which stands for dynamic window manager. another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config) Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to

Local has_fdo, freedesktop = pcall(require, 'freedesktop') when client with a matching name is opened: Enable hotkeys help widget for VIM and other apps Local hotkeys_popup = require('awful.hotkeys_popup') If LuaRocks is not installed, do nothing. If LuaRocks is installed, make sure that packages installed through it are The next post might take some time to appear, I want to make sure I'm not giving poor instructions. Login to your Openbox session, we'll set awesome up from there. Logout (modkey+Shift+q), you'll just be frustrated as a beginner using this session, especially if you're used to BunsenLabs' shortcuts. From left-to-right on your wibox/panel you'll find the awesome menu launcher, 9 tags, a blank space where your opened apps will display, some widgets, and a layout-switcher icon. You've installed awesome, a session has been created and you are now logged in to your awesome session. Widget=panel applet (clock, systray, etc.) modkey(Super/Windows)+s will open a shortcut menu that auto-updates when you reconfigure known basic shortcuts.Īs you can see there are many shortcuts, and many of them are awkward, and some of the terminology might not be clear. Awesome creates it's own session, so logout and choose awesome as your session and login.

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