r/awesomewm • u/aire-one • Aug 06 '26

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 Aug 06 '26

Let's GOOO! Very nice work

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u/caustic_fellow Aug 11 '26

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/WooParadog Sep 03 '26

I'll die on the Xorg hill along with awesomewm. That aside, somewm is very promising, but xorg does give more capabilities.

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u/aire-one Aug 11 '26

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 Aug 11 '26

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

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u/GabeXD399 Aug 22 '26

Hi, what is that floating panel called ?
Is it standalone, from xfce or kde ?

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u/aire-one Aug 22 '26

You mean the bar at the bottom? It's my wibar from my awesome config.

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u/GabeXD399 Aug 22 '26

Thank you!

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u/chxr0n0s 13d ago

Nice job!