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Awesome powerarrow-zev theme for 3.5

Powerarrow-zev is a fork of esn89's powerarrowf theme which is a fork of romokee's powerarrow theme

Installation

  • Copy the contents .config/awesome/ in this repository to ~/.config/awesome/
  • Run resources/powerline-fonts/install.sh to install the necessary fonts.
  • Restart Asesome
  • You may need to edit rc.lua to have the names of the network devices and harddrives if your system is not set up the same way as mine - To change the wallpaper replace ~/.config/awesome/themes/powerarrow-zev/wallpaper.jpg with your desired background.
  • To add/remove startup programs edit the last few lines (~line 650) of rc.lua
  • Change default programs (~line 50)
  • Enable/disable widgets by commenting/uncommenting right_layout:add(...) lines (~line 350)

For Debian Users

  • sudo apt-get install cmake liblua5.1-dev imagemagick libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-xtest0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libx11-xcb-dev lua-lgi-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev lua5.1 libxcb-cursor-dev libcairo2-dev
  • git clone git://git.naquadah.org/awesome.git
  • cd awesome
  • git remote add origin-debian git://git.debian.org/git/users/acid/awesome.git
  • git fetch origin-debian
  • cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc && make
  • sudo make install
  • sudo ldconfig -v

If Awesome throws errors when you try to Mod+Space to change layouts, install Awesome 3.5.5-1 from experimental

Changes from esn89's theme

  • Changed keybindings back to Awesome defaults, added multimedia keys, and set Mod+Ctr+Tab to lock xscreensaver
  • Added MPD widget instead of gMail swidget
  • Changed mem and cpu widgets to graphs
  • Added uptime widget instead of battery level for desktop users
  • Added download icon to take the place of the wifi strength icons for non wifi devices
  • Changed back to default number of tags
  • Added the Awesome Icon and menu in front of the taglist to match default theme
  • Moved system tray to be between the clock and the layout
  • Re-organized the hierarchy of the repository

TODO

  • Adding a weather widget
  • Looking to implement a calendar by turning the date textbox into a button

Screenshot

../screenshot.png