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Old 11-03-2013, 01:46 AM   #31
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Well, I've performed yet another reinstall in order to be completely sure that it was a full, clean install. Then I enabled xcb on cairo and installed all the other recommended packages. This time, it finally worked. Thanks for the help everyone. Marking as solved.
 
Old 11-28-2013, 05:27 PM   #32
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Just wanted to share the required packages to install awesome 3.5.1(from slackbuilds)

From Current(install these first before install the sbopkg list
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startup-notification-0.12-x86_64-2.txz
xcb-util-0.3.8-x86_64-1.txz(libxcb-util.so.0)
xcb-util-0.3.9-x86_64-1.txz(libxcb-util.so.1)
xcb-util-cursor-0.1.0-x86_64-1.txz
xcb-util-keysyms-0.3.9-x86_64-1.txz
xcb-util-wm-0.3.9-x86_64-1.txz
SBOPKG
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lua(first in order to build lgi)
lgi
libxdg-basedir
imlib2
awesome
There is no slackware package for vicious like other distributions package vicious in a package. Here is my other post to install the vicious widgets.Vicious Need to install the vicious plugin(libraries) if you want the widgets.

Last edited by chessmaster15; 11-28-2013 at 05:34 PM.
 
Old 11-28-2013, 05:38 PM   #33
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Don't forget to
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--enable-xcb
when building cairo as noted in the awesome slackbuild from the site and in the sbopkg.

Last edited by chessmaster15; 11-28-2013 at 05:43 PM.
 
  


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