AwesomeWM - A Brief Introduction

**rjmdomingo2003** · January 26th, 2008

Originally Posted by mali2297

..or that you need to make awesome.sh executable. From the terminal,

Code:

chmod +x ~/awesome.sh

I'm an idiot! Thanks mali2297! We always forget!

**Gigamo** · January 26th, 2008

This could maybe be added into the GDM part section of the guide - the chmod +x awesome.sh thing.

**shearn89** · January 26th, 2008

I've done it - just a note to make sure the path is correct, and make it executable.

**rjmdomingo2003** · January 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by mali2297

My guess is that you need to specify the full path in awesome.desktop.

Code:

Exec=/home/<username>/awesome.sh

..or that you need to make awesome.sh executable. From the terminal,

Code:

chmod +x ~/awesome.sh

This shouldn't be an or but an and instruction.

I've first tried making the script executable, however, I got the same error message of awesome.sh not being found. I then edited the awesome.desktop to indicate the full path instead of ~/awesome.sh, and finally got the awesome "interface".

Just need to get those huge fonts when I go home. Thanks guys!

**rjmdomingo2003** · January 27th, 2008

Oops, shearn already made those changes.. Dang! Sorry guys.

**prototype_angel** · August 6th, 2008

Hey, has anyone been able to build awesome 3.0? I couldn't build it because package "cairo-xcb" is missing (I painstakingly installed/compiled all the remaining packages)

If so, can someone help me out?

The output of my "make" can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...44#post5533444

**shearn89** · August 6th, 2008

Hi there - on my arch system cairo-xcb conflicted with cairo, and so wasn't in the repos. Looking at the pkgbuild file, the source can be downloaded from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz

and you need to compile with this configure line:

Code:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-xcb

**morngrar** · November 17th, 2008

just wondering if anyone has found/made a 3.0 guide or tutorial for ubuntu?

im trying to install 3.0, but xcb-util is giving me a headache...

here's the output:

Code:

bewar@bewar-eee:~/Desktop/xcb-util-0.3.0$ make
Making all in atom
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bewar/Desktop/xcb-util-0.3.0/atom'
gperf --output-file atoms.c atoms.gperf
atoms.gperf: The input file is empty!
make[1]: *** [atoms.c] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bewar/Desktop/xcb-util-0.3.0/atom'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

**shearn89** · November 17th, 2008

I did submit a 3.0 howto to the forum, but had no reply. I've been running arch for a few months now, which makes it harder to write an ubuntu tutorial. If i remember rightly, you have to build xcb with cairo support, however, that error simply says that there's nothing in atoms.c

Are you in the right directory?

**oxleyk** · November 23rd, 2010

I looked around for more appropriate location but didn't find one.

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