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Neil Meyer
Asked: 2024-10-15 18:09:19 +0800 CST

Is there a way to have Awesome Window Manager without a GUI?

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I have the Budgie flavour of Ubuntu installed. I have installed the Awesome Window Manager. Can you have Awesome without a GUI? Will my programs still run normally?

I don't just text-based terminal programs, stuff like Visual Studio Code. Can you load only Awesome and have your graphical-based programs work like normal or is Awesome alone only going to enable you to use Text-based terminal programs?

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    I am not totally clear on what you are asking - because Awesome Window Manager itself has a GUI - a Graphical User Interface. But this is what you can do.

    I installed Awesome Window Manager on a 20.04 virtual machine I keep for testing. (Its original desktop is MATE). After doing that and rebooting, you are presented with the choice of logging into Awesome instead of one of the Ubuntu desktops.

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    If you pick that and log in, this is what you get. There is nothing much on the desktop, but right-clicking gives you menus.

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    I think this is what your goal is. It lets you run graphical programs. They are listed in the right-click menu.

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