3 So that I can help you quickly and without having to redirect you here.
5 # If you have a question
7 Take the following steps:
9 1. Use a web search engine
10 2. Search in [Awesome doc](https://awesomewm.org/doc)
11 3. Ask the [community](https://awesomewm.org/community)
13 and, if you still don't have an answer, you can ask here.
15 **Please be warned:** if your question is unrelated to this repository, a reply is only an act of kindness.
17 # If you have an issue <a name="issuesec"/>
21 1. search the [issues section](https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats/issues) and
22 2. search [lain issues section](https://github.com/lcpz/lain/issues) and
23 3. search [lain wiki](https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki) and
24 4. try with default Awesome configuration, usually located in `/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua` or `/usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua`.
26 If you can't find a solution and your issue doesn't happen with default configuration, then go ahead and provide:
28 * output of `awesome -v` and `lua -v`
29 * expected behavior and actual behavior
30 * steps to reproduce the problem
31 * X error log (if needed)
33 # If Awesome fails to start
35 Then something went wrong during its initialisation. You have to provide X error
36 log. There are two ways:
38 1. Restart X like this:
40 startx -- -keeptty -nolisten tcp > $HOME/.xorg.log 2>&1
42 the error log will be output into `$HOME/.xorg.log`.
44 2. Use [Xephyr](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Xephyr):
46 # set screen size as you like
47 Xephyr :1 -screen 1280x800 2> stdout.txt & DISPLAY=:1 awesome
49 the error log will be output into the file `stdout.txt`.
51 Before reporting, read the log and see if you can solve it yourself. If you can't, then follow the [previous section](#issuesec).
53 # If you have a new feature or theme request
55 Write a detailed description of the desired design, preferably with screenshots or mockups.