Ubuntu – How to add awesome on session list

There should be no problem installing it as lightdm controls what environment you log in to. After installing it, log out and click to the right of your name and awesome will be listed there.

Note: recent version of ubuntu (13.10) comes with a bug preventing the awesome session from displaying. See how to add awesome on session list for further detail.

You've created and registered the widget, but you've not actually told Awesome where to put the widget. You might assume it should know you want it in the default "panel", but actually you can put it in other places (like if you set up a second panel at the bottom).

In the default rc.lua (and yours hopefully, if it's not been too customized), there should be a part that says something about creating a wibox:

 -- Create the wibox
 mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({
         fg = beautiful.fg_normal, bg = beautiful.bg_normal,
         border_color = beautiful.border_focus,
         --border_width = beautiful.border_width,
         position = "top",
         --height = 20,
         screen = s
         })

[Note there is an 's' variable due to that portion being in a 'for' loop. Same for the next code block below. ] Then you add the widgets you've defined to the wibox as follows:

 -- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
 mywibox[s].widgets = {
     {
         mylauncher,
         mytaglist[s], spacer,
         mylayoutbox[s],
         layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
     },
     mytextclock, separator,
     volwidget, volicon, separator,
     mailinfo, mailicon, separator,
     s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
     separator, upicon, netwidget, dnicon,
     -- mytasklist[s],
     layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
 }

These are not all vicious widgets but some default ones and ones I've defined. I have one set of widgets starting from the left edge of the screen and another starting from the right edge. My tasklist used to be in the middle of the panel but I've commented it out, since now I put a tasklist on a bottom panel and use conky in the middle of the top panel.