Thursday, August 11, 2011

Install Awesome Window Manager (WM) in Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.10 uses Gnome Desktop Environment (DE) version 2.32.0. We can also use Awesome Window Manager (WM) on it. To install awesome ..
1. Type :: sudo apt-get install awesome3

After successful Installation you have to make following changes using terminal
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop    False
# Disable buggy Nautilus desktop thing
gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current    /usr/bin/awesome
# Set awesome as your WM of choice

-If you cannot locate /usr/share/applications/awesome.desktop then add ~/.local/share/applications/awesome.desktop

2. In awesome.desktop file enter the following information
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Awesome
Comment=The awesome launcher!
TryExec=awesome
Exec=awesome

Then restart your computer. It's done now.

While logging in the window .. Please choose awesome from panel below.

Then Awesome Window Manager is shown. Then you can explore Awesome WM :)