/awesome-copycats

Awesome WM themes

Primary LanguageLua

Awesome WM Copycats

Themes for Awesome WM 4.x

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

Warning

If you still have to use branch 3.5.x, you can refer to the commit 4c8b1da, but be aware that it's no longer supported.

Description

A set of themes for the Awesome window manager.

Features

  • Autohide widgets
  • Autostart applications
  • Fast MPD and volume shortcuts (first time this trick has been used in Awesome)
  • Shortcuts for copying to the clipboard (no need for 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/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

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

Powerarrow Darker, inspired by romockee

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

Steamburn, porting of ok100's 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.jpg

Copland, inspired by foozer

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

Installation

With Git:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats.git
$ mv -bv awesome-copycats/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -r awesome-copycats

otherwise:

$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats/archive/master.zip -O awesome-copycats.zip
$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/archive/master.zip -O lain.zip
$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-freedesktop/archive/master.zip -O freedesktop.zip
$ unzip '*.zip'; rm *.zip
$ mv lain-master awesome-copycats-master/lain; mv awesome-freedesktop-master awesome-copycats-master/freedesktop
$ mv -bv awesome-copycats-master/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -r awesome-copycats-master

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

Notes

Complements are provided by lain.

Fonts are Terminus (Multicolor, Powerarrow Darker), Tamzen (Copland), Roboto (Holo) 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. If you want more glyphs, try FontAwesome.

Additional software used:

unclutter firefox scrot mpd mpc dmenu xsel