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

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varlevi commented Aug 21, 2020

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?

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

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varlevi commented Aug 22, 2020

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

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varlevi commented Aug 22, 2020

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!

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