Installation on Arch Linux

September 3, 2022 ยท View on GitHub

With the aur

The easiest and safest way to install newm is by using its AUR package.

example:

yay -S newm-git

(subsitute yay with your aur helper,eg: paru)

From source (archlinux specific)

Maybe you want to test features in development or help with debugging, whatever the case, the following tutorial aims to show how to:

  • install a different branch from the main newm branch.
  • install from a local copy of the repo
  • install a old release
  1. Clone PKBUILD
yay -G newm-git
  1. Navigate to the downloaded folder
cd newm-git
  1. Clone pywm and newm
git clone https://github.com/jbuchermn/pywm.git --branch=<any branch or tag>
git clone https://github.com/jbuchermn/newm.git --branch=<any branch or tag>
  1. Build and install
makepkg -sic

Note for iterative building: remove the last build package with rm *zst before building,or else it will reinstall the same package that was previously built

Tips and tricks / Install help

start-newm -d core dumps as soon as it is started!

  • Q: I started newm with start-newm -d and it core dumped!
  • A: try installing polkit(pacman -S polkit). I can't explain it, but it has fixed my issues in the past.
  • Q: What if it still doesn't work?
  • A: Open an issue and post your log.