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I have Lubuntu. But when i tried to use clean Awesome WM, i thought that can i use awesome WM with GTK themes. I this possible?

I tried to run awesome, but got:

E: awesome: main:463: another window manager is already running

Also, clean Awesome WM works fine without Lubuntu. How to use awesome WM as a Window Manager in Lubuntu?

Egretos
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In some case, you can add --replace to replace the current window manager. LXDE defaults to OpenBox.

Some desktop environment also have settings to replace the window manager (in this case, by AwesomeWM). A quick googling seems to indicate some distribution store this setting in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default.

However this is a bit of going in circle around the real issue here. Why run AwesomeWM in LXDE? Their feature set overlap at a rate of almost 100%. If you use lxde only for lxappearance (gtk theme mananger) and PCManFM, note that those 2 applications run just fine from the normal Awesome session. AwesomeWM itself provide the panel, wallpaper and window manager features, which leaves nothing from the original LXDE.

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee
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  • Thanks a lot! You are really got right! In my case, i have not `/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default`, insead of this i have `/etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf`. But what realy helps me - its `lxsession-default-apps` – Egretos Oct 19 '18 at 05:52