Awesome version 3.3.4 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
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    version 3.3.4

      View the most recent changes for the awesome port at: awesome.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for awesome.
      The raw portfile for awesome 3.3.4 is located here:
      http://awesome.darwinports.com/dports/x11/awesome/Portfile
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      # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; truncate-lines: t; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf-8:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
      The awesome Portfile 57498 2009-09-11 18:44:55Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: awesome
      Version: 3.3.4
      Category: x11 x11-wm
      Maintainers: milosh openmaintainer
      Platform: darwin

      Description: awesome is a tiling window manager
      Long Description: awesome is a tiling window manager initially based on a dwm code rewriting. It is extremely fast, small, dynamic and awesome. Windows can be managed in several layouts: tiled, maximized and floating. Each layout can be applied on the fly, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. awesome has the following features: very stable, no mouse needed, multihead support, some real transparency support, some xrandr support, no lua integration, no 9P support, no editable tagbars, no limits on its source size, key, script and mouse bindings, etc.

      Homepage: http://awesome.naquadah.org
      Master Sites: ${homepage}/download/
      Checksums: md5 b38075c1a2fc6668ed733508f1a4e56e sha1 2038a00cf26d894004acfa533ca0a30401a7cb15 rmd160 bbafb20b14968c563e79e5419f877beb26b36b5e

      depends_build path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo port:cmake port:ImageMagick port:startup-notification port:libxdg-basedir port:imlib2 port:libev

      depends_lib port:lua path:lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc:glib2 path:lib/pkgconfig/pango.pc:pango port:xcb port:xorg-libxcb port:xorg-randrproto

      build.target-append CMAKE_ARGS=" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${prefix} -DPREFIX=${prefix} -DAWESOME_DOC_PATH=${prefix}/share/doc/awesome -DAWESOME_MAN_PATH=${prefix}/share/man -DAWESOME_XSESSION_PATH=${prefix}/share/xsessions -DSYSCONFDIR=${prefix}/etc -DXDG_CONFIG_HOME=${prefix}/etc/xdg"

      Patch Files: patch-CMakeLists.txt.diff

      use_configure no

      Variant: doc description {Build man pages} {
      depends_build port:asciidoc port:xmlto port:doxygen
      }

      Variant: x11_xcb description {does nothing in this port, but its presence triggers cairo x11_xcb variant} {}

      default_variants +x11_xcb

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/awesome
      % sudo port install awesome
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching awesome
      ---> Verifying checksum for awesome
      ---> Extracting awesome
      ---> Configuring awesome
      ---> Building awesome with target all
      ---> Staging awesome into destroot
      ---> Installing awesome
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using awesome with these commands:
      %  man awesome
      % apropos awesome
      % which awesome
      % locate awesome

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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