Installation

Prerequisits

Rust needs to be installed. After it has been installed, restart the terminal session, so that any new environment variables are loaded.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Build tools need to be install:

sudo apt install git make build-essential libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev kitty xterm

Installation

  1. Clone the Oxide git repository:

git clone https://github.com/DHBW-FN/OxideWM.git

  1. Install Oxide via make:

cd OxideWM
make install
Sudo privileges are required to install Oxide.
After installation you can quit your current X session and log out. Subsequently Oxide should be selectable as window manager in your login screen.