This is an rpm package for awesome with the patches for qubes from https://gitlab.com/markwalters1009/awesome-source-for-qubes (which is a mildly tweaked version of https://github.com/woju/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome)

See that repository for details of the changes.

The following steps (done in FC23 VM) should give you a binary rpm ready for installing.

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome

2. Enter the repository

cd qubes-desktop-linux-awesome/

2. Install build tools etc needed

sudo dnf install @development-tools fedora-packager rpmdevtools

3. Install awesome specific build tools

sudo dnf builddep awesome.spec

4. Download original awesome source files

spectool -g awesome.spec

5. Verify downloaded sources

make verify-sources

6. Build the rpms with

make rpms

7. Finally copy the rpm somewhere convenient with

cp ../rpm/x86_64/awesome-3.5.9-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm /tmp/awesome.rpm

The full list of commands is

git clone https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome
cd qubes-desktop-linux-awesome/
sudo dnf install @development-tools fedora-packager rpmdevtools
sudo dnf builddep awesome.spec
spectool -g awesome.spec
make verify-sources
make rpms
cp ../rpm/x86_64/awesome-3.5.9-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm /tmp/awesome.rpm

The build process above should have left the rpm in ../rpm/

All of the commands below should be run in dom0

1. Install unqubified awesome to get dependencies, and dex-autostart that we will need later.

sudo qubes-dom0-update awesome dex-autostart

2. Copy the rpm to dom0 with

qvm-run --pass-io <rpm Qube> 'cat /tmp/awesome.rpm' > awesome.rpm

3. Now install the new rpm with

sudo dnf install awesome.rpm

4. Logout and select awesome when logging back in.

Finally, you can customise awesome as usual by creating/editing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua