I would like to add support for Awesome WM 4

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tho...@tutanota.com

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Nov 5, 2018, 10:02:38 AM11/5/18
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I was considering trying to get Awesome WM 4.2 to work with Qubes. Before I start I would like to verify with some of you who might know more than me if there is anything in particular I should consider which might make this difficult, or even impossible for the moment? The reason for wanting to do this is that I would like to utilize the fake screen API in Awesome which is only available in version 4 or higher. 

It seems like Awesome 4+ packages are only available for fc26-29, and Qubes dom0 seems to be running fc23 for Qubes 3.2 (which I am currently using) and fc25 for 4.0. Probably won't pick up this task until I get my new hardware and can install Qubes 4.0, which should happen in a few weeks.

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Wojtek Porczyk

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Nov 6, 2018, 12:09:51 PM11/6/18
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See https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome/pull/10.

TL;DR I'd like to have same version as distro. I think it would be better to
wait for fc29 in dom0: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4225.


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