Re: Awesome (X11) WM on Fedora 42 Beta

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+1 on sddm with awesomewm; that's my current setup on F41 and what I intend to use until I decide to find something else...

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM W. Michael Petullo <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is there any hope of running the awesome X11 window manager [1,2] on
> Fedora 42? I am presently testing Fedora 42 Beta. I have been limping
> along with awesome through Fedora 41, and it always worked until now.
>
> I submitted a bug report with some details:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356977
>
> Is there some kind of compatibility package awesome should depend on,
> or is running awesome no longer possible with Fedora Workstation?
>
> [1] https://awesomewm.org/
> [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/awesome
>

You need to switch to another display manager, as GDM no longer
supports X11 sessions.

One option is SDDM:

$ sudo dnf install sddm
$ sudo systemctl enable --force sddm
$ sudo systemctl reboot



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