Evilwm is a very lightweight window manager, which was created according to the principle of "the simpler the better." Therefore gives a description of the installation, configuration, and show map showing the path to success in using this application. Download and unpacks it, and go to the folder in which they are located. To begin our path to success, we need to install the program, which we do by issuing the following command:

$ Make

# make install

Configure
To start evilwm should be added to ~ /. Xinitrc following entry:

# Merge X resources from ~ /. Xdefaults
[-F $ HOME / .Xdefaults] & & xrdb $ HOME / .Xdefaults
# Set the background and root cursor shape
xsetroot-solid # 400040
xsetroot-cursor_name left_pt
# Start evilwm - snap to borders within 10 pixels
/ usr / bin / snap evilwm-10 &
# Transfer control to xclock - killing xclock (with Ctrl + Alt + Escape, say)
# Will exit our session
exec xclock-digital-padding 2-g -0 +0
# Or, if you want to be able to exit X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace only, use this
# Dummy line as the last line:
# exec sleep infinity

He shall be responsible for launching xterm, the default terminal emulator. It was thanks to him gain the full and unrestricted access to the maps, which are:

man evilwm

Additional configuration:

Changing the default terminal emulator
Just add the line runs evilwm in ~ /. Xinitrc (in the example will make use of rxvt-unicode):

/ usr / bin / urxvt evilwm-term

Installation and setup gmrun:

To be able to install gmrun and then run it klawiaturowym shortcut [Alt] + [F2] to install the following packages:

xbindkeys gmrun

Then, create a sample of keyboard shortcuts for xbindkeys:

xbindkeys - defaults> ~ /. xbindkeysrc

Now open your favorite editor the file ~ /. Xbindkeysrc and add the following line:

"gmrun"
Alt + F2

The last step is to add xbindkeys to ~ /. Xinitrc what we do by adding this line:

xbindkeys &