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gr4c3r
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:59 pm    Post subject: AwesomeWM setup Reply with quote

Hi,

finally I've managed to setup awesome wm, start it automatically and autologin, without an display manger.
As single user on this system, I prefer autologin.
Since I had different problems to find right ways, I wanted to share the way how I did this and which is working fine for me.
Maybe someone have an better way to do this.

I followed this Wiki entry to install and configure awesome.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Awesome

Now in /etc/inittab have append the line:
Code:
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux


with "-a <user>" (<user> as my username) that my user logs in automatically on tty1.
Code:
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux -a <user>


Add bellow into ~/.bashrc to run XServer when I log in.
In bellow script I check if there's already an DISPLAY defined and if current tty is /dev/tty1 to avoid to start an xServer again and again everytime when I start a shell.
Code:
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]; then
    while true
    do
        startx --
        sleep 10
    done
fi


Add awesome to ~/.xinitrc
Code:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome


Regards Julian
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gienah
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another bash way to start it is x11-misc/cdm
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Joined: 06 Aug 2012
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is my way of starting Awesome at login:

(Using .zprofile)
Code:
[[ $(fgconsole 2>/dev/null) == 1 ]] && exec startx -- vt1


It allows the chance to change to another tty if I need/want to do something as root or normal user before starting an X session.
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