Mar 112013
I recently started using the awesome window manager again. Running into some issues, I wanted to try out the git master version, but not replace my stable installation.
The recipe is:
- Build it for installation in $HOME and install it.
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$HOME/opt/awesome make install
- Create a testing wrapper script awesome-xephyr and put it into $PATH:
#!/bin/bash if [ -z "$AWESOME" ]; then AWESOME=awesome fi $AWESOME -k "$@" || exit 1 Xephyr :1 -ac -br -noreset -screen 1152x720 & xephyr_pid=$! sleep 1 DISPLAY=:1.0 $AWESOME "$@" & awesome_pid=$! echo "Press ENTER to kill Xephyr" read a kill $awesome_pid kill $xephyr_pid
- Run it
#!/bin/bash # ;; means the default lua search path export AWESOME_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/awesome export RC=$HOME/.config/awesome/git.lua # copied from .build.../awesomerc.lua and adjust the beautiful.init theme path LUA_PATH=";;$AWESOME_PREFIX/share/awesome/lib/?.lua;$AWESOME_PREFIX/share/awesome/lib/?/init.lua" \ AWESOME=$AWESOME_PREFIX/bin/awesome \ exec awesome-xephyr -c $RC
P.S. You can possibly tweak this to work without the make install directly from the .build directory.