Use another Window Manager (awesome) with Qubes OS

[One7two99]

Hello,

I've recently seen the window manager "awesome" in action which I haven't heard of before.I would like to give it a try on my Qubes 3.2 installation.

https://awesomewm.org/

Has someone succesfully setup awesome under Qubes (which is basically a fedora) and has maybe some tips how to do so?

It seems there are two options:

1) install awesome via dnf/repositories

2) build a rpm package from the GIT sources

     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/awesome.git/tree/

I've also never changed my default window manager in Qubes ...

Any guidance would be helpfull, also an information if it can be done at all.

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[Holger Levsen]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:24:54AM -0400, 'One7two99' via qubes-users wrote:
> I've recently seen the window manager "awesome" in action which I haven't heard of before.I would like to give it a try on my Qubes 3.2 installation.

I've been using awesome for almost 10 years and when I switched to Qubes
half a year ago I wanted to continue using awesome, saw these instructions and
gave i3 a try. (Which is a simple as "sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-i3-settings",
logout, changing to i3 in the login manager and login in again.)

Half an hour later I was happily using i3 and half a day later I knew I would
stay with i3.

(The reason is mostly that i3 is soo much simpler to configure than awesome,
I also like shell much much better than lua.)


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cheers,
Holger

[One7two99]

Hello Holger,

> I"ve been using awesome for almost 10 years and when I switched to Qubes

> half a year ago I wanted to continue using awesome, saw these instructions and

> gave i3 a try. (Which is a simple as "sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-i3-settings",

> logout, changing to i3 in the login manager and login in again.)

Thank you for the tip, I've watched some i3 videos and it looks good.

I'll give it a try. Just for info, the installation of i3 is possible via

sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes

(not: qubes-i3-settings :-)

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[Jarle Thorsen]

torsdag 28. september 2017 20.09.10 UTC+2 skrev One7two99 følgende:
> Hello Holger,
>
>
>
> > I"ve been using awesome for almost 10 years and when I switched to Qubes
>
> > half a year ago I wanted to continue using awesome, saw these instructions and
>
> > gave i3 a try. (Which is a simple as "sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-i3-settings",
>
> > logout, changing to i3 in the login manager and login in again.)
>
>
>
> Thank you for the tip, I've watched some i3 videos and it looks good.
>
> I'll give it a try. Just for info, the installation of i3 is possible via

As a former Awesome user I also now prefer the "simplicity" of i3.

[Outback Dingo]

Any possibilities Xmonad would also work i wonder, its quite nice