So that I can help you quickly and without having to redirect you here.
Take the following steps:
- Use a web search engine
- Search in Awesome doc
- Ask the community
and, if you still don't have an answer, you can ask here.
Please be warned: if your question is unrelated to this repository, a reply is only an act of kindness.
First do
- search the issues section and
- search lain issues section and
- search lain wiki and
- try with default Awesome configuration, usually located in
/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.luaor/usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua.
If you can't find a solution and your issue doesn't happen with default configuration, then go ahead and provide:
- output of
awesome -vandlua -v - expected behavior and actual behavior
- steps to reproduce the problem
- X error log (if needed)
Then something went wrong during its initialisation. You have to provide X error log. There are two ways:
- Restart X like this:
startx -- -keeptty -nolisten tcp > $HOME/.xorg.log 2>&1the error log will be output into $HOME/.xorg.log.
- Use Xephyr:
# set screen size as you like
Xephyr :1 -screen 1280x800 2> stdout.txt & DISPLAY=:1 awesomethe error log will be output into the file stdout.txt.
Before reporting, read the log and see if you can solve it yourself. If you can't, then follow the previous section.
Write a detailed description of the desired design, preferably with screenshots or mockups.