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Awesome (Window Manager)
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About Awesome
Awesome is a highly configurable window manager. It handles both tiling and floating layouts. You can go into a fine-grained customization to suit your needs with Lua scripting.
Vocabulary
- Screen
- A physical monitor plugged into your computer.
- Client
- A window.
- Tag
- A tag is something like a workspace or a desktop that you may find in other window managers. However, it is slightly more flexible as you can attach a client to multiple tags. Moreover, each screen has its own range of tags.
USE flags
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| dbus | Enables awesome to receive signals from dbus (eg. to trigger events on hotplug) |
| doc | Includes extra HTML documentation (using doxygen) |
| gnome | Enables you to use awesome as gnome's window manager (See. Quickly Setting up Awesome with Gnome) |
Installation
Just emerge it :
root # emerge -a awesome
Then you can add this line to you ~/.xinitrc:
~/.xinitrc
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome {{{body}}}
And run xinit to launch awesome. You can also configure a display manager instead, but this is not covered in this document.
Configuration