{"id":3548,"date":"2014-06-27T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2014-06-27T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:30:57","slug":"install-latest-awesome-window-manager-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/install-latest-awesome-window-manager-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Awesome Window Manager 3.5.5 in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-window-manager-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-window-manager-icon.png\" alt=\"Awesome window manager ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-window-manager-icon.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-window-manager-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.naquadah.org\/\" title=\"Awesome website\" target=\"_blank\">Awesome<\/a> is a dynamic window manager for the X developed in the C and Lua. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable and make it possible for the user to productively manage windows with the use of keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome has emerged as a dwm fork featuring customization through external configuration files. Although highly extensible, the default setup of the window manager is deliberately simplified. In doing so, the author has created what he calls a framework window manager for users to expand and adapt to their own needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-session.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-session.jpg\" alt=\"awesome 3.5.5 in ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-session.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/awesome-session-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install The Latest Awesome 3.5.5 in Ubuntu 14.04:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While Ubuntu repositories contain Awesome 3.4.x, you can get the last features and fixes by installing v3.5.5 from an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~klaus-vormweg\/+archive\/awesome\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg\/awesome\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install awesome<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out current session and choose log-in with awesome.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X developed in the C and Lua. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable and make it possible for the user to productively manage windows with the use of keyboard. Awesome has emerged as a dwm fork featuring customization through external configuration files. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1109,855],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-awesome-window-manager","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}