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breaksand30

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Registered: 2011-01-13

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Awesome WM how to install a theme?

So I'm new to Awesome and want to install a theme. I've edited the rc.lua file so this like is there:

beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/zenburn/theme.lua")

Now I go into ~/.config/awesome/themes and I have default, zenburn and sky. I want to install this theme:
https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Subtle_hacker_theme

So I copy that, make a new dir in ~/.config/awesome/themes title subtlehacker and create a theme.lua. Then I paste it in and edit rc.lua so its like this:

beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/subtlehacker/theme.lua")

But when I restart it's all screwed up and the top bar is white and I can't press anything I need to kill awesome and restart again.

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

Posts: 1,239

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Re: Awesome WM how to install a theme?

That theme is outdated. The format must be:

theme = {}
theme.var = "value"
...
return theme

Take a look at one of the default themes.

Last edited by Stebalien (2011-01-24 19:28:49)

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