AwesomeWM on Fedora 41
X11 (Xorg) continues its slow death march in favour of the newer Wayland. My window manager of choice, AwesomeWM, only runs on X11. I’ve been using it since ~2008, and I hate pointless change. Every time I get a new laptop or upgrade an OS, the chance of it no longer working increases.
Installing AwesomeWM on Fedora 41 was as simple as ever, just install the awesome package. Unfortunately, they made some changes which meant that AwesomeWM couldn’t start the way I normally start it (from within the GDM login manager). The fix turned out to be pretty simple:
dnf install gnome-session-xession xorg-x11-xinit-session
Apparently these packages are no longer installed by default as part of X11’s death march. But installing them means GDM works as before, and my now venerable AwesomeWM config simply works as before.
— Elric