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He mentioned he uses awesome, which probably means he's not using Ubuntu. Just my speculation.



Nope, you can install awesome on ubuntu and then switch to using it. Best setup is to make a .xsession file and fire up the various gnome services you need. Then have GDM boot up a "User Defined" session (or whatever it's called, I forget).




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