Awesome Window Manger Configuration

[Guest]

Can someone help me in configuring Awesome WM .
I did a apt-get install awesome , The install was fine
followed these steps
#vi /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

added the following entry
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Awesome
Comment=AwesomeWM
Exec=/home/username/.scripts/awesome.sh
Icon=
Type=Application

#mkdir ~/.scripts

#gedit ~/.scripts/awesome.sh

#exec awesome

#chmod +x ~/.scripts/awesome.sh

logged out n logged in

Followed the steps form http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678902


when i execute
#awesome
I get the following error

No protocol specified
E: awesome: main:412: cannot open display

Thanks,
Anand

[josefko]

Re: Awesome Window Manger Configuration

Just a note: You used #awesome and in manual there is written something different:

$ exec awesome

(# root, $ common user, exec is linux command)