Awesome Dot Files Config and How to Setup on Ubuntu/POP-OS/Debain and other debian based distro

Awesome Configuration

Config Files Repo : https://github.com/Bearbobs/glorious-awesome-debian

Setps to setup on debain based system as the original author is on arch and It's quite diffrent procedure as compared.

## Awesome and Rofi are quite old in debain repo, Building from Git is required.

    Steps to do the same.
       ## Rofi->
             git clone --recursive https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi
             cd rofi
             sudo apt install flex bison librsvg2-dev libjpeg-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-xtest0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev
             meson setup build
             ninja -C build
             sudo ninja -C build install
       ## Awesome->
             sudo apt build-dep awesome
             git clone https://github.com/awesomewm/awesome
             cd awesome
             make package
             sudo apt install build/*.deb
             
## Building Compositor for Debain
        ##Picom->
              git clone https://github.com/tryone144/compton.git
              cd compton
              git fetch
              git checkout feature/dual_kawase
              sudo apt install libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpcre2-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev
              git submodule update --init --recursive
              meson --buildtype=release . build
              ninja -C build
              ninja -C build install

## log in into awesome and fixing configs
        *Please backup any previous configs*
              git clone https://github.com/Bearbobs/glorious-awesome-debian.git
              cd glorious-awesome-debian
              -> Copy awesome folder to .config
## login to awesome desktop environment and enjoy!
Please Drop comment for any Help and Amendment.
Main Developer and Maintainer : https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles

Hello, thanks for this. I'll link this to my repo's README so Debian/Debian family users can use it. :)

Hello, thanks for this. I'll link this to my repo's README so Debian/Debian family users can use it. :)

thanks man!

Thank you for this! When I'm trying to install awesomewm, make package doesn't work for me, I always get this error message:

jon@jonpc:~/Downloads/awesome$ make package
Running make package in build…
[ 1%] Built target lgi-check
[ 1%] Checking for LGI...
Building for Lua 5.3.
Found lgi 0.9.2.
[ 1%] Built target lgi-check-run
[ 1%] Built target setup_directories
[ 2%] Generating docs/06-appearance.md
lua: ./docs/_parser.lua:3: module 'lgi' not found:No LuaRocks module found for lgi
no field package.preload['lgi']
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua'
no file './lgi.lua'
no file './lgi/init.lua'
no file '/home/jon/.luarocks/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua'
no file '/home/jon/.luarocks/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/lgi.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/loadall.so'
no file './lgi.so'
no file '/home/jon/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.3/lgi.so'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'require'
./docs/_parser.lua:3: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'require'
/home/jon/Downloads/awesome/docs/06-appearance.md.lua:3: in main chunk
[C]: in ?
CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/build.make:303: recipe for target 'docs/06-appearance.md' failed
make[3]: *** [docs/06-appearance.md] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5406: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
Makefile:44: recipe for target 'package' failed
make: *** [package] Error 2

Do you have any idea how to fix this? I've already tried re-installing lua and lig a few times, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong?

Can you please match the version of the build dependencies with https://github.com/awesomewm/awesome
And Can you please provide details regarding the OS you are on,

Added pre-built awesome package
https://github.com/Bearbobs/glorious-awesome-debian
try with it as well.

Hi, thanks for making this write up. I have a brand-new installation of Pop! OS. I followed your installation guide, I then received an error when trying to make AwesomeWM. I couldn't make my deb package, so I decided to use your pre-built awesome package. That installed, when I load into awesome wm from the lock screen, I get a black screen with nothing on it. Any suggestions?

what error you get @ChapelCone can u paste it here

sudo apt install *.deb yields

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package awesome-4.3.0.0~git809-g5d1394b9-Linux.deb
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'awesome-4.3.0.0~git809-g5d1394b9-Linux.deb'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'awesome-4.3.0.0~git809-g5d1394b9-Linux.deb'

make package outputs this

hey @ChapelCone just go inside the build directory , there will be a .deb file with name awesome just install it using any gui installer.

Hey. I get this error message when I run the make package command
"$ make package
Creating build directory and running cmake in it. You can also run CMake directly, if you want.

Running cmake…
/bin/sh: 1: cmake: not found
Makefile:23: recipe for target 'build/Makefile' failed
make: *** [build/Makefile] Error 127
"

I also get this error message when I try the sudo apt install *.deb command
"sudo apt install .deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package .deb
E: Couldn't find any package by glob '.deb'
E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression
E: Couldn't find any package by regex '.deb'
"
what do you think could be wrong?

try sudo apt install build/*.deb

Thanks. updated the deb cmd

I'm getting the error:
ninja: Entering directory build' [1/2] Installing files. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/name/.local/bin/meson", line 6, in <module> from mesonbuild.mesonmain import main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mesonbuild' FAILED: meson-install /home/name/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
anyone knows how to fix this?

ok so the solution was to install meson using sudo:sudo pip3 install meson

A new problem, i'm trying to install the packages required to install picom and i get this error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: mesa-common-dev (= 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~19.10.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm-dev (>= 2.4.95) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
any solutions?

Picom only

Running Debian 10 bullseye had to add dependencies plus ninja & meson to get this installed. (Also removed compton before installing)
Added depens = cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev

The complete list.
sudo apt install libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpcre2-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev
sudo pip3 install ninja
sudo pip3 install meson

Is rofi supposed to be inside the awesome folder or home folder?

rofi has a config file /home/your name/.config/rofi/config
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Plus for some reason even after I install awesome there is no /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

Updated the gist for the issues, 13/05/2020

When I run the make command I get the following error:
make[3]: lua: Command not found
CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/build.make:288: recipe for target 'awesomerc.lua' failed
make[3]: *** [awesomerc.lua] Error 127
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5478: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
Makefile:14: recipe for target 'cmake-build' failed
make: *** [cmake-build] Error 2

Please help me fix

Hi! Thanks for creating these instructions. Unfortunately, I've followed the instructions for installing Awesome from git and it doesn't show up on my login screen beside other DEs and WMs. However, when I run awesome --version, it gives me the most up to date version of awesome. Any ideas of what could be going on?

Most probably issues with awesome.desktop file. PFA link for reference :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125532/awesome-not-showing-up-in-gdm

Ah, yes. There appears to be no awesome.desktop file. What command should I execute when creating one?

@varlevi https://askubuntu.com/questions/408149/awesome-does-not-create-listing-in-gdm

Thanks. I have created the file, just using the command awesome as the execution and it now appears in the menu and I can use it to log in!