How to replace XFCE window manager with awesome

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

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.