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Awesome WM Copycats
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Warning
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I am in the process of updating to awesome 4.0. Currently, the ported themes are:
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- blackburn
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- copland
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- dremora
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Themes for Awesome WM 4.x
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:Author: Luke Bonham <dada [at] archlinux [dot] info>
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:Version: git
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:License: BY-NC-SA_
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:Source: https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats
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Description
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A set of themes with the aim of making Awesome_ appearance awesome too!
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Notable features
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- Autohide widgets (*tell me only when you have to*)
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- Autostart applications
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- Fast MPD and volume shortcuts (first time this trick has been used in Awesome)
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- Other shortcuts for copying to the clipboard (no need for clipboard managers), toggle wiboxes, widgets popups, screenshots capture, moving and magnifying clients
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- Quake drop-down terminal
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- Calendar with current day highlighted and months switch with a click/scroll
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- Notifications for new mails, current song, volume level, hdd critical state, low battery
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- OpenWeatherMap integration
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- Net carrier status notifier
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- Colorful autoupdating icons
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- Symbolic tag names
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- TXT layoutbox
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- Cairo wibox bar
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- Custom layouts
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- No borders when there's only one visible client
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- Freedesktop.org compliant menu and desktop icons
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- Vi-like client focus
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- Non-empty tag browsing
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- Dynamic client borders (colors change along with processes status)
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- Dynamic useless gaps
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- Dynamic tagging
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Gallery
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**Multicolor**, inspired by lucamanni_
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/650.png
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**Powerarrow Darker**, inspired by romockee_
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/649.png
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**Steamburn**, porting of ok100_'s dwm
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/648.png
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**Blackburn**
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/553.png
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**Dremora**
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/652.png
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**Rainbow**
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/606.png
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**Holo**, requested by amouly_
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/651.png
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**Copland**, inspired by foozer_
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.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/655.png
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Installation
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With Git: ::
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$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats.git
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$ mv -bv awesome-copycats/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -r awesome-copycats
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otherwise: ::
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$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats/archive/master.zip -O awesome-copycats.zip
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$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/archive/master.zip -O lain.zip
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$ wget https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-freedesktop/archive/master.zip -O freedesktop.zip
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$ unzip '*.zip'; rm *.zip
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$ mv lain-master awesome-copycats-master/lain; mv awesome-freedesktop awesome-copycats-master/freedesktop
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$ mv -bv awesome-copycats-master/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -r awesome-copycats-master
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Usage
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Switch a theme this way: ::
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$ cd ~/.config/awesome
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$ cp rc.lua.theme rc.lua
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Alternatively, you can use `switch-theme.sh`_, which will also update to the latest commit.
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Then, customize your ``rc.lua`` and restart Awesome (``Mod4 + ctrl + r``).
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Notes
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Only compatible with **stable** versions of Lua and Awesome (git/unstable versions are *not* supported).
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Complements are provided by lain_: be sure to meet its dependencies_.
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Fonts are Terminus_ (Multicolor, Powerarrow Darker), Tamzen_ (Copland) and Tamsyn_ (other ones).
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Every theme has a colorscheme_.
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Blackburn and Dremora use Icons_: be sure to have bitmaps enabled if running under Debian_ or Ubuntu_.
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Default additional software used: ::
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unclutter firefox scrot mpd mpc dmenu xsel
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.. _BY-NC-SA: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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.. _Awesome: http://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome
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.. _lucamanni: https://github.com/lucamanni/awesome
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.. _romockee: https://github.com/romockee/powerarrow
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.. _ok100: http://ok100.deviantart.com/art/DWM-January-2013-348656846
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.. _amouly: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1307158#p1307158
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.. _foozer: http://dotshare.it/dots/499/
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.. _`switch-theme.sh`: https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats/issues/36
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.. _lain: https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain
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.. _dependencies: https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki#dependencies
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.. _Terminus: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
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.. _Tamzen: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
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.. _Tamsyn: http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/
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.. _colorscheme: https://github.com/copycat-killer/dots/tree/master/.colors
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.. _Icons: https://github.com/copycat-killer/dots/tree/master/.fonts
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.. _Debian: http://weiwu.sdf.org/100921.html
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.. _Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts
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