Installing on Ubuntu

Follow these steps to try howm on Ubuntu -

• Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm

• Install the dependencies that can be found here
• Run make

make

Use checkinstall to install the binary as a debian package.

sudo checkinstall

Make sure to change the version and release number when prompted, else the debian package will fail. You can use any version number like 0.1.

Now howm is installed. The following steps depends on how you log into your x-session:

1. Without a display manager like lightdm:

• Create ~/.xinitrc (if not already) and add the following as the last line:

exec /usr/bin/howm

• When you login to your tty, run startx and it should log into howm

2. With lightdm.

• Create a file /usr/bin/howm-session with the contents mentioned here.

The important thing to remember here that you can use something like /home/user/.config/howm/autostart script to start applications. The last line should always be the path of the dzen script. Also double check that dzen script executable.

• Make /usr/bin/howm-session executable.

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/howm-session

• Next create a file /usr/share/xsessions/howm.desktop with the contents mentioned here

Save it and reboot.

Next when you log into lightdm, (the part where you put your password to login) you can click on the small white cirle and select howm. If everything goes well you will log in to howm.