/awesome-copycats

Awesome WM themes

Primary LanguageLua

Awesome WM Copycats

Power themes for Awesome WM 3.5+

Author: Luke Bonham <dada [at] archlinux [dot] info>
Version: 2.0-git
License:BY-NC-SA
Source:https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats

Description

A set of themes with the aim of making Awesome appearance awesome too!

Notable features

  • Autohide widgets (tell me only when you have to)
  • Autostart applications
  • Fast MPD and volume shortcuts (first time you see this trick in Awesome)
  • Other shortcuts for copying to the clipboard (goodbye clipboard managers!), 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
  • Elegant notifications for new mails, current song, volume level, hdd critical state, low battery
  • Yahoo! Weather integration
  • Net carrier status notifier
  • Colorful autoupdating icons
  • Symbolic tag names
  • TXT layoutbox
  • PNG wibox bar
  • Custom layouts
  • No borders when there's only one visible client
  • Powerful volume bar
  • Freedesktop menu
  • Vi-like client focus
  • Nice client border (colors change along with processes status)
  • Non-empty tag browsing
  • Dynamic useless gaps
  • Dynamic tagging

Gallery

Multicolor inspired by tip

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

Powerarrow Darker copycatted from romockee [custom porting from v3.4]

http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/649.png

Steamburn copycatted from ok100 [porting from dwm]

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

Blackburn

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

Dremora

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

Rainbow

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

Holo requested by amouly

http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/651.png

Copland inspired by foozer

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

Installation

Using git you can have the full master branch:

git clone https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats.git
mv awesome-copycats/* ~/.config/awesome; rmdir awesome-copycats
cd ~/.config/awesome
git submodule update --init

This may take some time.

Otherwise, download the latest two masters of awesome-copycats and lain (1 and 2), extract the first one, extract the second one into the first one, and put the contents of the first one into your Awesome directory.

Usage

Switch a theme this way:

cd ~/.config/awesome
cp rc.lua.theme rc.lua

Alternatively, you can use switch-theme.sh, which will also update to the latest commit.

Then, eventually customize your rc.lua, and restart Awesome (Mod4 + ctrl + r).

Notes

Be sure to have the latest stable versions of Lua, Lua-lgi, and Awesome.

Complements are provided by lain: be sure to meet its dependencies.

Fonts are Terminus (Multicolor, Powerarrow Darker) and Tamsyn (other ones).

Every theme has a colorscheme.

Blackburn and Dremora use Icons: be sure to have bitmaps enabled if running under Debian or Ubuntu.

Freedesktop uses /etc/mime.types, so be sure to have MIME support installed.

Eminent, freedesktop and scratchdrop are third-party softwares: either disable them or rely on their creators if they cause you slowdowns or issues .

Feel free to email me if you have any request.