How to replace XFCE window manager with awesome

Question

How can I replace XFCE4 window manager with awesome?

I tried to place the following content to the ~/.xinitrc file:

#!/bin/sh

exec awesome

I also tried to do this stuff:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /sessions/Failsafe/Client0_Command -t string -s "awesome" -a

And it doesn't work. Of course I already installed awesome via

sudo apt-get install awesome

Answer 1

from https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Awesome_and_Xfce4

1. Go to: Settings -> Session and Startup -> Session

2. And change Restart Style of xfwm4 to Never

3. Then go to Application Autostart and add awesome

It should work after restarting xfce

Answer 2

On the fly, you can type :

killall xfwm4 && awesome &

To exchange permanently, you can edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml and replace xfwm4 with awesome.