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Quick Overview

Awesome-copycats is a collection of themes and configurations for the Awesome window manager on Linux. It provides a set of pre-configured, customizable layouts and widgets to enhance the user's desktop experience. The project aims to offer aesthetically pleasing and functional setups that users can easily adopt or modify.

Pros

Offers a variety of ready-to-use themes and configurations
Highly customizable, allowing users to tailor their desktop environment
Includes detailed documentation and screenshots for each theme
Actively maintained with regular updates and community contributions

Cons

Requires some knowledge of Lua programming for advanced customization
May have a steeper learning curve for users new to Awesome WM
Limited to Awesome window manager, not applicable to other desktop environments
Some themes may require additional dependencies or fonts

Getting Started

Clone the repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.git

Back up your existing Awesome configuration:

mv ~/.config/awesome ~/.config/awesome.bak

Copy the configuration files:

cp -r awesome-copycats ~/.config/awesome

Choose a theme by editing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua:

local chosen_theme = "powerarrow"
beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))

Restart Awesome WM (usually Mod4 + Control + r) or log out and back in.

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rofi

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A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

Pros of rofi

Focuses specifically on enhancing the Rofi application launcher, providing a wide variety of themes and configurations
Offers extensive customization options for Rofi, including color schemes, layouts, and animations
Includes additional scripts and plugins to extend Rofi's functionality beyond just application launching

Cons of rofi

Limited to Rofi customization, whereas awesome-copycats provides complete desktop environment themes
May require more manual configuration and setup compared to the more comprehensive awesome-copycats
Less integrated with the overall desktop environment, focusing primarily on the application launcher

Code Comparison

rofi configuration example:

* {
    background-color: #282c34;
    border-color: #2e343f;
    text-color: #8ca0aa;
    spacing: 0;
    width: 512px;
}

awesome-copycats theme example:

theme.bg_normal     = "#222222"
theme.bg_focus      = "#535d6c"
theme.fg_normal     = "#aaaaaa"
theme.fg_focus      = "#ffffff"
theme.border_width  = 1

While rofi focuses on styling the Rofi launcher, awesome-copycats provides theming for the entire Awesome window manager environment.

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Pros of neofetch-themes

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Cons of neofetch-themes

Limited to Neofetch customization, less versatile than awesome-copycats
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Less comprehensive documentation compared to awesome-copycats

Code Comparison

neofetch-themes:

# Example Neofetch configuration
print_info() {
    info title
    info underline
    info "OS" distro
    info "Host" model
    info "Kernel" kernel
    info "Uptime" uptime
    info "Packages" packages
    info "Shell" shell
    info "Resolution" resolution
    info "DE" de
    info "WM" wm
    info "WM Theme" wm_theme
    info "Theme" theme
    info "Icons" icons
    info "Terminal" term
    info "Terminal Font" term_font
    info "CPU" cpu
    info "GPU" gpu
    info "Memory" memory
    info cols
}

awesome-copycats:

-- Example AwesomeWM configuration
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
local hotkeys_popup = require("awful.hotkeys_popup").widget

-- Load theme
beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_themes_dir() .. "default/theme.lua")

-- Set wallpaper
screen.connect_signal("property::geometry", set_wallpaper)

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Cons of polybar-themes

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Some themes might be resource-intensive due to complex configurations

Code Comparison

polybar-themes:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Terminate already running bar instances
killall -q polybar

# Launch the bar
polybar main &

awesome-copycats:

-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")

Summary

polybar-themes focuses on providing a diverse collection of themes for the Polybar status bar, offering easy customization and installation. awesome-copycats, on the other hand, provides complete Awesome WM configurations with various themes and layouts. While polybar-themes is more specialized and easier to set up for Polybar users, awesome-copycats offers a more comprehensive desktop environment solution but may require more configuration effort.

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README

Awesome WM Copycats

Themes for Awesome WM 4.x

:Author: Luca CPZ :Version: git :License: BY-SA_ :Source: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats

Description

A set of themes for the Awesome_ window manager, version 4.x.

See branches_ for previous versions.

Purpose

The main purpose of this repository is to spread ready to use configurations, which can also serve as a cookbook for customisation.

A secondary aim is to add new themes only when they constitute different UI/UX designs.

Features

Modularity
Autohide widgets
Autostart windowless processes
Fast MPD and volume shortcuts (first time this trick has been used in Awesome)
Shortcuts for copying to the clipboard, 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_

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

Powerarrow, porting of romockee_'s

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/1453.png

Powerarrow Dark

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/649.jpg

Steamburn, porting of ok100_'s dwm

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/648.png

Blackburn

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/553.png

Dremora

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/652.png

Rainbow

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/606.png

Holo, requested by amouly_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/651.jpg

Copland, inspired by foozer_

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

Vertex, requested by swordfischer_

.. image:: http://dotshare.it/public/images/uploads/1432.jpg

Installation

.. code-block:: shell

git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules --depth 1 -j 2 https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats.git
mv -bv awesome-copycats/{*,.[^.]*} ~/.config/awesome; rm -rf awesome-copycats

In case you do not want the Git files, use the following as the second command:

.. code-block:: shell

mv -bv awesome-copycats/* ~/.config/awesome; rm -rf awesome-copycats

Usage

The modular structure allows to

set variables
define startup processes
change keybindings and layouts
set client properties

in rc.lua, and

configure widgets
define wiboxes and screen settings

in theme.lua, so that you just need to change chosen_theme variable in rc.lua to preserve your preferences and switch the theme, instead of having file redundancy.

Just do the following:

.. code-block:: shell

$ cd ~/.config/awesome
$ cp rc.lua.template rc.lua

Then, set the variable chosen_theme in rc.lua to your preferred theme, do your settings, and restart Awesome (Mod4 + ctrl + r).

To customize a theme, head over to themes/$chosen_theme/theme.lua.

Otherwise, if you want to be synced with upstream, modify the theme path in rc.lua like this:

.. code-block:: diff

-beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))
+beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme-personal.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))

then, copy theme.lua to theme-personal.lua and do your customizations there.

This way, you can safely git pull anytime.

Notes

Complements are provided by lain_ and freedesktop_. Be sure to satisfy their dependencies_. In particular, mail_ and weather_ widgets have mandatory arguments.

The fonts used in the screenshots are: Terminus_ (Multicolor, Powerarrow, Powerarrow Dark), Roboto_ (Holo, Vertex) and Tamzen_ (other ones).

As taglist font, Blackburn and Dremora use Icons_, Vertex uses FontAwesome_: be sure to have bitmaps enabled if running under Debian or Ubuntu_.

Every theme has a colorscheme_.

Additional default software used: ::

amixer dmenu librewolf mpc mpd scrot unclutter xbacklight xsel slock

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