Awesome

Awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.

Configuration
The default configuration file of Awesome is located in ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua. If such a directory or file does not exist we will need to create them.

Creating the configuration
A default, out of the box, configuration is distributed with Awesome and can be found at /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua. We would need to copy that configuration file to the user home directory. First we create the awesome directory with the following command:

Then we copy the lua configuration file with the following command:

Launch
If awesome is going to be launched from terminal through startx a configuration similar to the following is needed:

Touchpad
If a Touchpad hardware is present and scrolling does not work .xinitrc should look similar to the following:

External Reference

 * Awesome Homepage