document updated 12 years ago, on Mar 30, 2012
long writeup with lots of suggestions
TODO: try this
TODO: or this?
one-off
If nothing else works, this does (though the setting is only temporary):
killall metacity; awesome &
initial setup
This works for me in Ubuntu 10.10 / Gnome 2.32:
- create a ~/.xinitrc, and paste this in:
#!/bin/sh
awesome &
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session # ck-launch-session is advised for the dbus stuff to work fine.
- chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
- symlink ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession
- log out
- whenever you log in, choose "User Defined Session" ("Custom ~/.xsession script") as your window manager.
problems
- Win + M should be able to toggle maximize/minimize. Unfortunately, Gnome's Indicator Applet sometimes grabs this hotkey.