[SOLVED] Awesome Windows Manager terminal not opening

Hello,
I recently reinstalled Arch on my UEFI laptop. It went pretty smoothly, apart from the fact that whenever I start up arch it says that it failed to activate my swap partition. But that's not the problem I'm posting about. I installed Xorg, and then AWM, and adding "exec awesome" to ~/.xinitrc, and Awesome starts up nicely when I run startx. However, when awesome starts up, I can't open a terminal window. I've taken to just exiting Awesome whenever I want to run a command, which is a real pain in the arse when I just installed and I'm still pacmanning like crazy for all the packages I need.
Do you guys know what's wrong? I can right click, but when I click "open terminal", or "manual" or "edit config", nothing happens. No windows pops up under any of the tags, no application appears on the toolbar at the top. "restart" and "quit" work, so it's nothing to do with the actual right click menu / menu that pops up when you click the button in the top left.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I looked online, it doesn't seem like anyone else has this problem...
Last edited by plomp90 (2013-10-03 01:47:33)

Also, don't forget you can swap to a virtual terminal via Ctrl-Alt-F2, for instance. And Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get back (well, to be pedantic, Alt-F1 works from the terminal, but I prefer to just use the one that always works)

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