Awesome WM Copycats

Themes for Awesome WM 4.x

:Author: Luca CPZ
:Version: git
:License: BY-NC-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-NC-SA: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-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