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

Powerarrow Darker, inspired by romockee

Steamburn, porting of ok100's dwm

Blackburn

Dremora

Rainbow

Holo, requested by amouly

Copland, inspired by foozer

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