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EVILWM INSTALLATION GUIDE
Building from source
See the evilwm home page (https://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/)
for downloads. Once you have a copy of the source code, either the git
repository or by downloading a tar archive, building is very
straightforward.
In addition to the standard C compiler tools, you will need X11
development files installed. Under Debian, the x11proto-dev, libx11-dev
and libxrandr-dev packages should suffice.
The source distribution does contain a configure script, but this is
not from the GNU build system. It is a minimal bash script provided to
simplify multiarch cross-builds under Debian. Instead, edit the
Makefile to modify build flags for your platform.
Then, building and installing is very simple:
$ make
$ make install
That's it! But if you need to install to a different prefix, you can
override with something like:
$ make install prefix=/usr/local
Starting evilwm
The install process puts a file called evilwm.desktop into
/usr/share/applications, so depending on your desktop manager, you may
simply be able to pick evilwm from a menu. Otherwise, most managers
will run Xsession, which will look for a file in your home directory
called .xsession and run it (so be sure it has execute permission).
Here's a simple example .xsession file:
#!/bin/sh
test -f $HOME/.Xresources && xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid \#400040 -cursor_name left_ptr
( /usr/bin/evilwm -snap 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 & )
exec xclock -digital -padding 2 -g -0+0
The cursor shape and background colour are set with standard X tools
(evilwm won't do this for you). xclock becomes the "magic process"
(session terminates when it is killed). evilwm itself is started in a
subshell otherwise xclock would become its parent, and killing evilwm
to restart it may result in a zombie process. You could also avoid this
by not exec-ing the "magic process"; the shell will handle child sig-
nals properly.
See here for a more complete example of a .xsession file (xses-
sion.txt). Obviously, it depends on a lot of external packages.
You used to be able to configure the GNOME session manager to use
evilwm as its window manager by running gconf-editor and setting the
key /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager to evilwm.
The package information for gconf-editor suggests this approach is out
of date, however.
If you typically start X by typing startx from the console, you might
need the .xsession file to be called .xinitrc. A symlink should suf-
fice.
After starting, you should be able to bring up an xterm with Con-
trol+Alt+Enter. For more information on configuring and using evilwm,
see the manual (https://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/manual.shtml).
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