awesome

awesome works fine in crouton (added a bash script for this: get-crouton-awesome.sh):

• Install xorg: sudo crouton -t xorg

  If there are existing target, then use update: sudo crouton -u -t xorg

• Enter the chroot: sudo enter-chroot -n chrootname (name is perhaps precise)

• Install awesome: sudo apt-get install awesome

• Add exec awesome to ~/.xinitrc: echo "exec awesome" > ~/.xinitrc

• Create configuration directory mkdir -p ~/.config/awesome

• Copy default configuration from /etc/xdg/awesome: cp -r /etc/xdg/awesome/* ~/.config/awesome/

• Launch awesome directly from the crosh shell: sudo enter-chroot xinit (for convenience, add an alias: alias startawesome='sudo enter-chroot xinit' in the ~/.bashrc)

• On Chromebooks, the search key (right below tab) is actually the 'Mod4' key. awesome works with it right out of the box!