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

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

Steamburn copycatted from ok100 [porting from dwm]

Blackburn

Dremora

Rainbow

Holo suggested by amouly

Copland inspired by foozer

Installation

Using git: :

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

Otherwise download this two archives (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

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

Notes

Be sure to have Lua 5.2+, Lua-lgi, and latest version of 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: rely on their creators if they cause you issues.