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Awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment.

Prerequisites

Internet connectivity, unless the packages have been pre-fetched into a local cache.
Install appropriate Graphics driver drivers for your hardware. Without graphics drivers, errors are likely to occur when starting your desktop.
A non-root user account.
The community repository must be enabled.
Set up eudev.
Install and enable D-Bus. Without D-Bus, icons and keyboard shortcuts may be missing.
Install Xorg

Installation

Install awesome, xterm and terminus font.

# apk add awesome xterm font-terminus

Video and Input packages

You might want to install a package suitable for your video chipset and input devices.
For example:

# apk add xf86-input-synaptics

Run apk search xf86-video* to see available xf86-video packages.
Run apk search xf86-input* to see available xf86-input packages.

VMWare Users

# apk add xf86-video-vmware

and/or

# apk add xf86-input-vmmouse

acpid

If you installed your Alpine Linux as a VirtualBox or VMWare guest, you might find it handy to be able execute an ACPI shutdown.

# rc-update add acpid

Start your desktop

$ echo 'awesome' >> /home/<newuser>/.xinitrc

$ mkdir /home/<newuser>/.config

$ cp -r /etc/xdg/awesome /home/<newuser>/.config

$ vi /home/<newuser>/.config/awesome/rc.lua

Start awesome.

$ startx

Troubleshooting

D-Bus problems:

D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory

If startx fails and returns an error about D-Bus failed to read machine uuid, as shown above, proceed as follows:

Install dbus from apk (you must be logged in as root for the step shown below)

# apk add dbus

Log in or su to the root account, then launch the following command (Note: sudo does not work for this step):

# dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

Now if startx is launched, it should load the desktop correctly

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+[https://awesomewm.org/ Awesome] is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment.
-= Initial setup =
+== Prerequisites ==
-Start by booting Alpine (see [[Installation|these]] instructions on how to do that)<BR>
+{{:Include:Desktop prerequisites}}
-When Alpine is up and running, do the initial setup.
+* [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-xorg-base|Install Xorg]]
-{{Cmd|# setup-alpine}}
-= Enable Community Repository =
+== Installation ==
-In order to install the awesome package (see "Install packages" below), you need to enable the community repository for your version. Uncomment {{codeline|http://<url>/alpine/<version>/community}} in {{path|/etc/apk/repositories}}. For example:
-{{cat|/etc/apk/repositories|<nowiki># /etc/apk/repositories
-#/media/sdb/apks
+Install awesome, xterm and terminus font. {{Cmd|# apk add {{pkg|awesome|arch=}} {{pkg|xterm|arch=}} {{pkg|font-terminus|arch=}}}}
-http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/alpine/v3.8/main
-http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/alpine/v3.8/community
-#http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/alpine/v3.8/testing
-</nowiki>
-}}
-= Install packages =
-Install awesome, feh and aterm.<BR>
-Depending on your network speed, it might take a few minutes.
-{{Cmd|# apk add awesome feh aterm}}
-If aterm is not recognized by apk (Alpine Linux 3.2.x or above) you can install lxterminal instead.<BR>
-On the same version of Alpine Linux (3.2.x or above) you have to install the package lua otherwise awesome will not start
-{{Cmd|# apk add lua}}
-You may need to add packages for the Adwaita theme.
-{{Cmd|# apk add adwaita-gtk2-theme adwaita-icon-theme}}
-Add other apps as needed. e.g. firefox, gnumeric, xchat, gimp, pidgin, geany, vim, etc.<BR>
-For Alpine Linux 2.6.x add the following pkgs
-{{Cmd|# apk add cairo-gobject pango}}
-== Optional packages ==
 === Video and Input packages ===
 You <u>might</u> want to install a package suitable for your video chipset and input devices.<BR>
-For example, if you have an Sis video chipset, install 'xf86-video-sis'. For Intel video chipset, install 'xf86-video-intel'.<BR>
+For example:
-{{Cmd|# apk add xf86-video-sis}}
+{{Cmd|# apk add {{pkg|xf86-input-synaptics|arch=}}}}
-and / or
-{{Cmd|# apk add xf86-input-synaptics}}
+Run {{ic|apk search {{pkg|xf86-video*|arch=}}}} to see available xf86-video packages.<BR>
+Run {{ic|apk search {{pkg|xf86-input*|arch=}}}} to see available xf86-input packages.<BR>
-Run 'apk search xf86-video*' to see available xf86-video packages.<BR>
+=== VMWare Users ===
-Run 'apk search xf86-input*' to see available xf86-input packages.<BR>
+{{Cmd|# apk add {{pkg|xf86-video-vmware|arch=}}}}
+and/or
+{{Cmd|# apk add {{pkg|xf86-input-vmmouse|arch=}}}}
 === acpid ===
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 {{Cmd|# rc-update add acpid}}
-= Configure xorg-server =
+== Start your desktop ==
-On most systems, xorg should be able to autodetect all devices. However, you can still configure xorg-server manually by launching:
-{{Cmd|# setup-xorg-base}}
-= Create user accounts =
-Create a normal user account.
-{{Cmd|# adduser <user>}}
-Optionally, give that user sudo permissions in /etc/sudoers. When doing so, it is important to use the command: {{Cmd|# visudo}} This ensures that only one user is changing the file at any given time.  Visudo has two modes: Command mode and Insert mode.  To edit the file, use the arrows to navigate to the appropriate line and enter Insert mode by pressing the 'i' key.  To save and exit, enter Command mode by pressing the 'Esc' key, then ':w' + 'enter' to save, and finally ':q' + 'enter' to quit.
-Log out of the root account and log in to the newly created account.
-= Start your desktop =
 {{Cmd|$ echo 'awesome' >> /home/<newuser>/.xinitrc}}
 {{Cmd|$ mkdir /home/<newuser>/.config}}
 {{Cmd|$ cp -r /etc/xdg/awesome  /home/<newuser>/.config}}
 {{Cmd|$ vi /home/<newuser>/.config/awesome/rc.lua}}
-Replace instances of xterm with aterm or (if 3.2.x or above use lxterminal instead)
 Start awesome.
 {{Cmd|$ startx}}
-= Troubleshooting =
+== Troubleshooting ==
 D-Bus problems:
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 Install dbus from apk (you must be logged in as root for the step shown below)
-{{Cmd|# apk add dbus}}
+{{Cmd|# apk add {{pkg|dbus|arch=}}}}
 Log in or su to the root account, then launch the following command (Note: sudo does not work for this step):
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 Now if startx is launched, it should load the desktop correctly
-= =
+== See also ==
-* [[Dwm]]
+* [[Xorg]]
+* [https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/documentation/07-my-first-awesome.md.html  Official Documentation]
-[[Category:Desktop]]
+[[Category:Window Managers]]
-[[category: Lua]]