awesome wm

Installation

butch install awesome

Get a working theme

The multicolor theme from awesome-copycats works (probably the other themes from there, too). You'll only need to patch ~/.config/awesome/lain/widgets/yawn/init.lua, hardcode local language to en_US:

local language            = "en_US" -- string.match(os.getenv("LANG"), "(%S*$*)[.]") or "en_US" -- if LANG is not set