Changing themes in awesome wm

[Scott Vargovich]

Hiya!
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I just switched to using the awesome wm about a week ago - I'm still trying to get my sea-legs under me.  I downloaded a bunch of different themes and extracted the zip file into ~/.config/awesome/themes.  I have read the awesome wiki on theming awesome and have watched a youtube video of somebody switching themes - and both of them have

done nothing but confuse me.  Is there somebody on here who uses awesome wm???  If so, could you send me a beginners'step-by-step tutorial on how to change awesome themes???

Thanks,

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[Hep]

Hey Scott, well I'm not an expert in awesome wm, but this is how I made themes working on Debian Jessie (awesome v3.4.15), probably there is a better a way to do it. At first I was having issues with some themes because they were from an older version of awesome, maybe you want to check that up if you haven't yet. Then I have all my themes in ~/.config/awesome/themes in there I edited my rc.lua to have something like 'beautiful.init("/home/whoever/.config/themes/current/theme.lua")' if there is another line with beautiful.init you can comment that with -- (dash dash). With that change made just go to ~/.config/awesome/themes and create a symlink called current to the directory of the theme you want to use and reload awesome. I have noticed that sometimes you will have to modify paths in the theme.lua scripts from the theme and/or have to install dependencies... But so far I liked awesome I use it in my work computer and it is great... Good luck!!!