I'm trying to install my favorite window manager awesome wm on Slackware 13.1. I've only been using Slackware for a few days and it's not very intuitive to me yet.

I couldn't find any information on doing this for recent versions of either awesome or sw, all I've got is this wiki page on compiling awesome 3.2 on sw 13:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome-3-Slackware

Following this, downloading the mentioned (old) versions of dependencies, I have successfully compiled awesome 3.2, which is now located in /tmp/custom-packages/. I have the folders awesome-3.2 (probably source, many .c and .h files) and packages-awesome. It looks like a complete install inside the latter, am I manually supposed to copy the files where I want them?

When I try to start it (awesome, exec awesome), it says
E: awesome: main:428: cannot open display
EDIT: And then logs me out from my session.

All WMs I installed with Slackware (XFCE, fluxbox, blackbox et c) work.
What could I be doing wrong?

I'm also curious what the process would be for installing newer versions, both for this particular case and as a general rule. Would slackers generally:
Use an older SlackBuild and edit VERSION, and then keep trying to compile and install whatever package the compiler asks for, until it works?

some info http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...anager-690286/ and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...13-1-a-828080/

Thanks.

I guess it's not a very popular wm, seeing how little success people in those threads seemed to have. :P

Progress:
Copied files from /tmp/custom_pkgs/package-awesome/ to /usr/ and /etc/
Copied newly created /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua to ~/.config/awesome/
Created /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.awesome, containing the line "exec awesome"

I guess this is very obvious and that I just wasn't expecting to have to do it, also I don't know how X works very well since it just works otherwise.

Now it feels like startx almost works - it stops at:
/usr/bin/awesetbg: line 512: 17222 Segmentation fault $WPSETTER `eval echo $option` "$wallpaper"
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged

Wonder what that is about.