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How to use awesome WM with LXSession (LXDE, Lubuntu)

I have Lubuntu. But when i tried to use clean Awesome WM, i thought that can i use awesome WM with GTK themes. I this possible?

I tried to run awesome, but got:

E: awesome: main:463: another window manager is already running

Also, clean Awesome WM works fine without Lubuntu. How to use awesome WM as a Window Manager in Lubuntu?

Solution

  • In some case, you can add --replace to replace the current window manager. LXDE defaults to OpenBox.

    Some desktop environment also have settings to replace the window manager (in this case, by AwesomeWM). A quick googling seems to indicate some distribution store this setting in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default.

    However this is a bit of going in circle around the real issue here. Why run AwesomeWM in LXDE? Their feature set overlap at a rate of almost 100%. If you use lxde only for lxappearance (gtk theme mananger) and PCManFM, note that those 2 applications run just fine from the normal Awesome session. AwesomeWM itself provide the panel, wallpaper and window manager features, which leaves nothing from the original LXDE.