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No idea. The last update was 2015, but a three year gap is a pretty normal release cadence for it:

http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/

I’ve never had a corrupted xauthority. I’d guess there’s a bug in some component other than X. (Does X11 even create the .Xauthority? Isn’t that the display manager (like xdm)’s job?)

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Have you tried i3wm? I switched to it permanently a few years ago and never looked back. Here [0] is my config. Sway [1], a port of i3wm to Wayland, is kind of stable as well.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/carun/dot-files/src/tip/.i3-config

[1] http://swaywm.org

I have been using awesome, but I often see people recommending i3. Any advantages of i3 over awesome?

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