dantimofte/material-awesome

Material and Mouse driven theme for AwesomeWM 4.3

Original work by PapyElGringo, official development seem to have moved to material-shell

Note: This fork focuses on streamlining the config and adding some Quality of Life touches to the theme.

An almost desktop environment made with AwesomeWM following the Material Design guidelines with a performant opiniated mouse/keyboard workflow to increase daily productivity and comfort.

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Installation

1) Get all the dependencies

Debian-Based

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/unstable -y
sudo apt install awesome fonts-roboto rofi picom i3lock xclip qt5-style-plugins materia-gtk-theme lxappearance xbacklight kde-spectacle nautilus xfce4-power-manager pnmixer network-manager-applet gnome-polkit -y
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh

Note: PPA is for picom since compton is old and hasn't been updated

Arch-Based

yay -S awesome rofi picom i3lock-fancy xclip ttf-roboto gnome-polkit materia-gtk-theme lxappearance flameshot pnmixer network-manager-applet xfce4-power-manager -y
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh

Program list

AwesomeWM as the window manager - universal package install: awesome
Roboto as the font - Debian: fonts-roboto Arch: ttf-roboto
Rofi for the app launcher - universal install: rofi
picom for the compositor (blur and animations) universal install: picom - Debian users need PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/unstable)
i3lock the lockscreen application universal install: i3lock-fancy
xclip for copying screenshots to clipboard package: xclip
[gnome-polkit] recommend using the gnome-polkit as it integrates nicely for elevating programs that need root access
Materia as GTK theme - Arch Install: materia-theme debian: materia-gtk-theme
Papirus Dark as icon theme Universal Install: wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh
lxappearance to set up the gtk and icon theme
(Laptop) xbacklight for adjusting brightness on laptops (disabled by default)
flameshot my personal screenshot utility of choice, can be replaced by whichever you want, just remember to edit the apps.lua file
pnmixer Audio Tray icon that is in debian repositories and is easily installed on arch through AUR.
network-manager-applet nm-applet is a Network Manager Tray display from GNOME.
xfce4-power-manager XFCE4's power manager is excellent and a great way of dealing with sleep, monitor timeout, and other power management features.

2) Clone the configuration

git clone https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/material-awesome.git ~/.config/awesome

3) Set the themes

Start lxappearance to active the icon theme and GTK theme Note: for cursor theme, edit ~/.icons/default/index.theme and ~/.config/gtk3-0/settings.ini, for the change to also show up in applications run as root, copy the 2 files over to their respective place in /root.

4) Same theme for Qt/KDE applications and GTK applications, and fix missing indicators

First install qt5-style-plugins (debian) | qt5-styleplugins (arch) and add this to the bottom of your /etc/environment

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

The first variable fixes most indicators (especially electron based ones!), the second tells Qt and KDE applications to use your gtk2 theme set through lxappearance.

5) Read the documentation

The documentation live within the source code.

The project is split in functional directories and in each of them there is a readme where you can get additional information about the them.

Configuration is about all the settings available
Layout hold the disposition of all the widgets
Module contain all the features available
Theme hold all the aesthetic aspects
Widget contain all the widgets available

dantimofte / material-awesome