Material and Mouse driven theme for AwesomeWM 4.3
Original work by PapyElGringo, official development seem to have moved to material-shell
Note: This fork changes some defaults and adds some themes.
An almost desktop environment made with AwesomeWM following the Material Design guidelines with a performant opiniated mouse/keyboard workflow to increase daily productivity and comfort.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/unstable -y
sudo apt install awesome fonts-roboto rofi picom i3lock-fancy qt5-style-plugins materia-gtk-theme lxappearance flameshot nautilus xfce4-power-manager pnmixer network-manager-gnome lxpolkit redshift-gtk -y
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh
Note: PPA is for picom since compton is old and hasn't been updated. ONLY USE THE PPA IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING DEBIAN 11 OR NEWER
yay -S awesome rofi picom i3lock-fancy ttf-roboto lxsession materia-gtk-theme lxappearance flameshot light pnmixer network-manager-applet xfce4-power-manager redshift-gtk -y
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh
- AwesomeWM as the window manager - universal package install: awesome
- Roboto as the font - Debian: fonts-roboto Arch: ttf-roboto
- Rofi for the app launcher - universal install: rofi
- picom for the compositor (blur and animations) universal install: picom - Debian users need PPA (
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/unstable) - i3lock the lockscreen application universal install: i3lock-fancy
- [lxpolkit] recommend using the lxpolkit as it integrates nicely for elevating programs that need root access and looks good
- Materia as GTK theme - Arch Install: materia-theme debian: materia-gtk-theme
- Papirus Dark as icon theme Universal Install: wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh
- lxappearance to set up the gtk and icon theme
- (Laptop) light for adjusting brightness on laptops (disabled by default)
- flameshot my personal screenshot utility of choice, can be replaced by whichever you want, just remember to edit the apps.lua file
- pnmixer Audio Tray icon that is in debian repositories and is easily installed on arch through AUR.
- network-manager-applet nm-applet is a Network Manager Tray display from GNOME.
- xfce4-power-manager XFCE4's power manager is excellent and a great way of dealing with sleep, monitor timeout, and other power management features.
- redshift-gtk My preferred blue light reducer. Feel free to disable/change it, just remember to edit the apps.lua file
git clone https://github.com/wolfiediscord/material-awesome.git ~/.config/awesome
Start lxappearance to active the icon theme and GTK theme
Note: for cursor theme, edit ~/.icons/default/index.theme and ~/.config/gtk3-0/settings.ini, for the change to also show up in applications run as root, copy the 2 files over to their respective place in /root.
First install qt5-style-plugins (debian) | qt5-styleplugins (arch) and add this to the bottom of your /etc/environment
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2The first variable fixes most indicators (especially electron based ones!), the second tells Qt and KDE applications to use your gtk2 theme set through lxappearance.
The documentation live within the source code.
The project is split in functional directories and in each of them there is a readme where you can get additional information about the them.
- Configuration is about all the settings available
- Layout hold the disposition of all the widgets
- Module contain all the features available
- Theme hold all the aesthetic aspects
- Widget contain all the widgets available