Using awesome with KDE Plasma 5

To use awesome window manager with KDE Plasma you need to do following

# nano /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/windowmanagers/awesome.desktop

and paste following in that file

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Awesome
Comment=Highly configurable framework window manager
Type=XSession
Exec=awesome
TryExec=awesome

Now go to kde system settings > Applications > Default Applications > Window Manager and select awesome 🙂

Wasn’t this awesome?