Running awesome from $HOME

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:

1. Build it for installation in $HOME and install it.

   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$HOME/opt/awesome
   make install
   

2. 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
   

3. 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.