Install Awesome! ( I also installed dex rlwrap vicious )
Copy the /etc/xdg/awesome/ folder to ~/.config/awesome/

mkdir -p ~/.config/awesome/
cp -r /etc/xdg/awesome/* ~/.config/awesome/.

Change your xinitrc/*dm config to boot on awesome

Can/Should be done on Xephyr

Xephyr :1 -ac -br -noreset -screen 1152x720 &
DISPLAY=:1.0 awesome -c ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

Follow the basic wiki My First Awesome adapting it to your needs

• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page Awesome wiki
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/awesome Archlinux Wiki
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Getting_started
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169852 Different Wallpaper per tag
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Drop-down_terminal Drop Down Terminal
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Using_Multiple_Screens Multi Screen
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/FAQ FAQ
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Widgets_in_awesome Widgets
• http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome_3.x man
• http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2012-awesome-wm.html Switching to Awesome