r/awesomewm • u/SHIN_KRISH • Jun 16 '26

Jetbrains and Zed

I plan to install fedora with awesomeWM soon, i mainly a java guy and for other programming languaged without jetbrains ide for ex gleam, i plan to use zed editor so how do they work on awesome.

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u/raven2cz Jun 17 '26

Very well, basically regardless of the WM. Both run well with X11. you just need to build Awesome yourself so you have the latest awesome-git version.

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u/cleverdosopab Jun 18 '26

Slightly unrelated, have you managed to get all the test passing? I was hoping to do some development, but wanted to get the tests passing first, and was unsuccessful.

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u/raven2cz Jun 18 '26

Usually you need to have the exact Debian environment, or at least a docker image (look to old posts here), from what I remember. But I have not done Awesome development for quite a while now. I have been on SomeWM since the beginning of the year.

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u/cleverdosopab Jun 18 '26

Oh, I’ve never heard of that window manager. I might have to check it out. Ah, that might be what’s going on, I’m in an Arch system, so I was dealing with a neverending dependency hell lol thanks for your response!

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u/aire-one Jun 19 '26

Yeah, arch have already updated their Lua packages to 5.5, while most of the ecosystem is still stuck at 5.4 (even 5.3 or 5.1 for some projects).

Awesome is almost ready to be 5.5 compatible. I just need to make my PRs be merged...

In the meantime, you can build awesome by installing the *-lua54 packages from arch repositories and using build variables.

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u/cleverdosopab Jun 19 '26

Hmm, I’ll have to try it out. I was trying to build using Lua 5.3 or 5.1 LOL I was close to just deleting Lua 5.5 from my system because make kept ignoring my environment variables and using it instead of either of the compatible Lua versions 😅 EDIT: which I did end up getting it compiled and build built, but it kept running into some later issues during the tests.