Hello, Honestly, if you have root access to the RHEL computer, I suggest you make a debian chroot (using debootstrap) in yout home directory for newer packages. RHEL5 is very old and EOLed for most users. I understand some users can upgrade and you probably can't do much about it. It is why a chroot make sense. It allow you to have up to date software semi isolated from your main system. I am not sure the Cairo version used in RHEL5 have proper XCB support and other features required by Awesome, we are talking 2007 Linux, you can't expect 2014 software to work as expected. The same can be said of Windows 8.1 (2013) apps on Windows Vista (2007).
I have worked in the scientific community where using badly outdated RHEL/SL is common and seen/used this work around many times. Note that you will have to disable DBus support as chroot and dbus are not very good friends. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
