Awesome WM Copycats

Themes for Awesome WM 4.x

:Author: Luca CPZ :Version: git :License: BY-SA_ :Source: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats

Description

A set of themes for the Awesome_ window manager, version 4.x.

See branches_ for previous versions.

Purpose

The main purpose of this repository is to spread ready to use configurations, which can also serve as a cookbook for customisation.

A secondary aim is to add new themes only when they constitute different UI/UX designs.

Features

• Modularity
• Autohide widgets
• Autostart windowless processes
• Fast MPD and volume shortcuts (first time this trick has been used in Awesome)
• Shortcuts for copying to the clipboard, toggle wiboxes, widgets popups, screenshots capture, moving and magnifying clients
• Quake drop-down terminal
• Calendar with current day highlighted and months switch with a click/scroll
• Notifications for new mails, current song, volume level, hdd critical state, low battery
• OpenWeatherMap integration
• Net carrier status notifier
• Symbolic tag names
• DWM-like textual layoutbox
• Cairo wibar
• Custom layouts
• No borders when there's only one visible client
• Freedesktop.org compliant menu and desktop icons
• Vi-like client focus
• Non-empty tag browsing
• On-the-fly useless gaps resize
• Dynamic tagging

Gallery

Multicolor, inspired by lucamanni_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/650.png

Powerarrow, porting of romockee_'s

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/1453.png

Powerarrow Dark

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/649.jpg

Steamburn, porting of ok100_'s dwm

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/648.png

Blackburn

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/553.png

Dremora

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/652.png

Rainbow

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/606.png

Holo, requested by amouly_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/651.jpg

Copland, inspired by foozer_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/655.png

Vertex, requested by swordfischer_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/1432.jpg

Installation

.. code-block:: shell

git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules --depth 1 -j 2 https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.git
mv -bv awesome-copycats/{*,.[^.]*} ~/.config/awesome; rm -rf awesome-copycats

In case you do not want the Git files, use the following as the second command:

.. code-block:: shell

mv -bv awesome-copycats/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -rf awesome-copycats

Usage

The modular structure allows to

• set variables
• define startup processes
• change keybindings and layouts
• set client properties

in rc.lua, and

• configure widgets
• define wiboxes and screen settings

in theme.lua, so that you just need to change chosen_theme variable in rc.lua to preserve your preferences and switch the theme, instead of having file redundancy.

Just do the following:

.. code-block:: shell

$ cd ~/.config/awesome
$ cp rc.lua.template rc.lua

Then, set the variable chosen_theme in rc.lua to your preferred theme, do your settings, and restart Awesome (Mod4 + ctrl + r).

To customize a theme, head over to themes/$chosen_theme/theme.lua.

Otherwise, if you want to be synced with upstream, modify the theme path in rc.lua like this:

.. code-block:: diff

-beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))
+beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme-personal.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))

then, copy theme.lua to theme-personal.lua and do your customizations there.

This way, you can safely git pull anytime.

Notes

Complements are provided by lain_ and freedesktop_. Be sure to satisfy their dependencies_. In particular, mail_ and weather_ widgets have mandatory arguments.

The fonts used in the screenshots are: Terminus_ (Multicolor, Powerarrow, Powerarrow Dark), Roboto_ (Holo, Vertex) and Tamzen_ (other ones).

As taglist font, Blackburn and Dremora use Icons_, Vertex uses FontAwesome_: be sure to have bitmaps enabled if running under Debian or Ubuntu_.

Every theme has a colorscheme_.

Additional default software used: ::

amixer dmenu librewolf mpc mpd scrot unclutter xbacklight xsel slock

.. _BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 .. _Awesome: http://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome .. _branches: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats/branches .. _lucamanni: https://github.com/lucamanni/awesome .. _romockee: https://github.com/romockee/powerarrow .. _ok100: http://ok100.deviantart.com/art/DWM-January-2013-348656846 .. _amouly: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1307158#p1307158 .. _swordfischer: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats/issues/53 .. _foozer: http://dotshare.it/dots/499 .. _lain: https://github.com/lcpz/lain .. _freedesktop: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop .. _Terminus: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net .. _Roboto: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto .. _Tamzen: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font .. _Icons: https://github.com/lcpz/dots/tree/master/.fonts .. _FontAwesome: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome .. _Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts .. _colorscheme: https://github.com/lcpz/dots/tree/master/.colors .. _dependencies: https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki#dependencies .. _mail: https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki/mail .. _weather: https://github.com/lcpz/lain/wiki/weather