Determinant / awesome-retropunk

A complete and minimalist retro-style Awesome WM config.

awesome-retropunk

An Awesome WM theme with gruvbox colors, cool widgets and features.

Features

• Minimalist yet informative CPU and RAM stat graphs
• Fancy box showing MPD playing status and progress, with scrolling song title
• Pixelated style of icons with colors automatically extracted from the original application (see the chrome icon below)
• Sharp and clear client status (floating, maximized, etc.) icon

Preview

Install

• Checkout the repo content in your Awesome WM directory by git clone https://github.com/Determinant/awesome-retropunk.git ~/.config/awesome/
• Checkout the subrepo by git submodule update --init --recursive
• Run make all to compile the cairohack cpp file in the submodule
• Download and install the cherry and siji font
• Add the following lines to your ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<match>
    <test name="family">
        <string>pixel</string>
    </test>
    <edit binding="strong" mode="prepend" name="family">
        <string>cherry</string>
        <string>Siji</string>
        <string>WenQuanYi WenQuanYi Bitmap Song</string>
        <!-- Your other fonts here <string>Source Han Sans TC Normal</string> -->
    </edit>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
        <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
</match>