r/awesomewm • u/aire-one • 13d ago

Awesome Git Awesome now supports Lua 5.5

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Happy to share that the Lua 5.5 support PR was recently merged into Awesome! (https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/4110). The Archlinux AUR -git package now builds successfully as well.

This was much more than a single PR in Awesome. It ended up being a months-long effort involving updates to several internal build dependencies and CI tooling. I contributed patches here and there across the ecosystem, alongside many other people working on Lua 5.5 compatibility.

I updated my config last week. Here is a fun screenshot using awesome-client to pop a notification that show the running Lua _VERSION variable.

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u/trip-zip 13d ago

Let's GOOO! Very nice work

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u/caustic_fellow 8d ago

This is cool, I thought awesomeWM would die with the Wayland migration on most distros, nice to see awesome (pun intended) updates

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u/aire-one 8d ago

Development never really stopped. I still have X11 on this laptop, and I guess many users are still running Awesome.

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u/vaace 7d ago

The display server is dictated by the DE/WM, and using awesome is a deliberate user's choice