README.rst

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

Powerarrow, porting of romockee's

Powerarrow Dark

Steamburn, porting of ok100's dwm

Blackburn

Dremora

Rainbow

Holo, requested by amouly

Copland, inspired by foozer

Vertex, requested by swordfischer

Installation

git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules --depth 1 -j 2 https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.git
mkdir -p ~/.config/awesome && 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:

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:

$ 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:

-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