How do I install awesome WM on Ubuntu 19.04?

Question

I have installed awesome via

$ apt-get install awesome

That adds awesome to the login screen's sessions menu but when I attempt to create an awesome session the screen goes briefly blank and then reverts to login.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

(Please report a bug on GitHub or ask on Reddit. Stackoverflow is intended for programming questions and is not the right format for support issues. It will turn into a chat in the comments and probably and there isn't a way to upload logs and system information.)

Installing AwesomeWM is done using apt-get install awesome. There is thousand of people using AwesomeWM in Ubuntu and it works for them. If AwesomeWM does not start, it can be because of one of the following reason:

• A custom config in ~/.config/awesome uses LGI in a way that isn't safe and cause a segmentation fault.
• Multiple incompatible PPAs have been installed and applications can no longer start.
• The config in /etc/xdg/awesome has been modified and its syntax is invalid.
• A driver issue causes a crash (in that case adding --no-argb to the session command may help`.
• X11 itself crashes, see /var/log and ~/.xsession-errors for details
• The session file is invalid and tries to start AwesomeWM without starting X11 first or something like that.