This example install should work, mutatis mutandis. E.g., if you've already downloaded it, you don't need to wget it. If you use sudo, use that instead of the su + suspend. Change the version name where applicable, etc.
:~$ wget http://euclid-wm.googlecode.com/files/euclid-wm-0.1.1.tar.gz --2010-07-23 16:17:36-- http://euclid-wm.googlecode.com/files/euclid-wm-0.1.1.tar.gz Resolving euclid-wm.googlecode.com... 72.14.204.82 Connecting to euclid-wm.googlecode.com|72.14.204.82|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 19832 (19K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: “euclid-wm-0.1.1.tar.gz” 100%[===================================================>] 19,832 54.7K/s in 0.4s 2010-07-23 16:17:42 (54.7 KB/s) - “euclid-wm-0.1.1.tar.gz” saved [19832/19832] :~$ tar -xzf euclid-wm-0.1.1.tar.gz :~$ cd euclid-wm-0.1.1/ :~/euclid-wm-0.1.1$ make cc -pedantic -Wall -lX11 -O2 -std=c99 euclid-wm.c -o euclid-wm :~/euclid-wm-0.1.1$ su Password: :/home/wmdiem/euclid-wm-0.1.1# make install :/home/wmdiem/euclid-wm-0.1.1# suspend [1]+ Stopped su :~/development/src/euclid-wm-0.1.1$ man euclid-wm
If you use a display manger euclid-wm should now be in its list of sessions.
If you use xinitrc, you should exec start-euclid.
This site is optimized for w3m.