get crouton awesome.sh - dnschneid/crouton GitHub Wiki

# Tested working on crouton as of 2014-08-01
# run this once in chroot / ubuntu to install and set basic awesome configuration

sudo apt-get install awesome
echo "exec awesome" > ~/.xinitrc
mkdir -p ~/.config/awesome
cp -r /etc/xdg/awesome/* ~/.config/awesome/

# after installing awesome, then issue the following at crosh to add the alias
# then in the future, just type: startawesome to start in awesome
# echo "alias startawesome='sudo enter-chroot xinit'" >> ~/.bashrc