Ubuntu – How to install the latest awesome window manager

I didn't still success, but as for now I managed to get most of it.

By installing each dependency within a fakeroot environment the system thinks every dependency is right. Except for Awesome itself.

The config is so poorly written that every single component has its path hardcoded in every config file. When I have time later I'll try to "regexly" solve that problem and recompile Awesome.

If anybody else does have a solution I'd like to know and discuss it, maybe mark it as accepted.

Starting from a template

First you'll need to copy the template rc.lua file into your home folder

mkdir ~/.config/awesome
cp /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ~/.config/awesome/

Defining applications to start

Now using awesome - edit config copy the following code at the bottom of your new rc.lua file

do
  local cmds =
  {
    "firefox",
    "xedit"
  }

  for _,i in pairs(cmds) do
    awful.util.spawn(i)
  end
end

In this example - firefox and xedit are run on startup.

An excellent wiki page describing this and much more can be found on ArchLinux