ayu is a simple theme with bright colors and comes in three versions — dark, mirage and light for all day long comfortable work.

This theme has been inspired by the multicolor theme from Awesome WM Copycats and uses the gorgeous ayu color palette.

• Screenshoots
  • dark
  • mirage
  • light
• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • Preconfigured awesome configuration
  • Use theme with your custom configuration.
• Configuration
  • Widget Parameters
• Helper functions
• License
• Related projects

Screenshoots

dark

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mirage

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light

Installation

Dependencies

• awesome v4.3
• vicious
• owfont - symbol font for Open Weather Map API
• Font Awesome 4
• mononoki

optional to switch colorschemes

• wpgtk

Preconfigured awesome configuration

My awesome configuration uses this theme. Follow the instruction in my awesome-rc repo to use my setup as a starting point.

Use theme with your custom configuration.

Follow these instruction to use my theme in your custom awesome configuration.

1. Clone vicious and theme to ~/.config/awesome/

   cd $HOME/.config/awesome
   mkdir themes
   git clone https://github.com/MArpogaus/awesome-ayu.git themes/ayu
   git clone https://github.com/vicious-widgets/vicious.git vicious
   

2. Install Font Awesome 4 and mononoki

   # Debian / Ubuntu
   apt install fonts-font-awesome fonts-mononoki
   # Manjaro
   pamac build ttf-font-awesome-4 ttf-mononoki
   

3. Download and install owfont

   wget -O /usr/share/fonts/TTF/owfont-regular.ttf 'https://github.com/websygen/owfont/blob/master/fonts/owfont-regular.ttf?raw=true'
   

4. Create your configuration file.

   cp themes/ayu/config.lua.template config.lua
   

5. Load the theme in your rc.lua

   local chosen_theme= "ayu"
   beautiful.init(string.format("%s/.config/awesome/themes/%s/theme.lua", os.getenv("HOME"), chosen_theme))
   awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(beautiful.at_screen_connect)
   

6. Optional: install wpgtk to switch colorschemes. JSON colorschemes and a Rofi template can be found in the wpg folder.

   # Install from Pip
   sudo pip3 install wpgtk
   # Install from AUR
   pamac build wpgtk-git
   
   # install colorschemes
   cd $HOME/.config/awesome/themes/ayu/img
   cs=light; wpg -a $cs.png; wpg -i $cs.png ../wpg/ayu_$cs.json
   cs=dark; wpg -a $cs.png; wpg -i $cs.png ../wpg/ayu_$cs.json
   cs=mirage; wpg -a $cs.png; wpg -i $cs.png ../wpg/ayu_$cs.json
   
   # install wpgtk templates for icons, gtk and rofi themes
   wpg-install.sh -gir
   
   # install modified rofi template
   cp $HOME/.config/awesome/themes/ayu/wpg/templates/rofi.base $HOME/.config/wpg/templates/rofi.base
   
   # restore on startup
   echo '$HOME/.config/wpg/wp_init.sh' > $HOME/.xprofile
   

Configuration

The configuration file config.lua allows you to adjust the appearance of the theme to your needs. The following table gives an overview of all configuration parameters:

Name	Description	Type
tyrannical	using Tyrannical tag managment engine	bool
xresources	load colorschemes from xresources	bool
color_scheme	colorscheme to use	string
dpi	number of pixels per inch of the screen	string
icon_theme	icon theme to use	string
wallpaper	path to your wallpaper	string
desktop_widgets	enable/disable desktop widget	bool
wibar_widgets	widgets for the wibar	array of strings
arc_widgets	widgets for the the desktop pop up	array of strings
widgets_arg	widget parameters (see below)	table

If parameters are unset the following defaults are used:

{
    -- Load colorschemes from xresources
    xresources = false,
    color_scheme = 'light',

    -- icon theme to use
    icon_theme = 'HighContrast',

    -- disable desktop widget
    desktop_widgets = true,

    -- Using Tyrannical tag managment engine
    tyrannical = false,

    -- widgets to be added to wibar
    wibar_widgets = {
        'net_down',
        'net_up',
        'vol',
        'mem',
        'cpu',
        'fs',
        'weather',
        'temp',
        'bat',
        'datetime'
    },

    -- widgets to be added to the desktop pop up
    arc_widgets = {'cpu', 'mem', 'fs', 'bat'}
}

Widget Parameters

Some widgets (weather, temp, net) require additional configuration. The parameters for each widget are stored in a table under the key widgets_arg in the configuration.

A example configuration is shown in the following listing:

{
    weather = {
        -- Your city for the weather widget
        city_id = '2643743',
        app_id = '4c57f0c88d9844630327623633ce269cf826ab99'
    },
    temp = {
        -- Set resource for temperature widget
        thermal_zone = 'thermal_zone0'
    },
    net = {
        -- Network interface
        net_interface = 'eth0'
    }
}

The following table gives an overview of all widget parameters:

Name	Description	Type
city_id	open weather map id of your city. Find it here: https://openweathermap.org/find?q=	string
app_id	open weather map API key. Sign up here: https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up	string
thermal_zone	resource for temperature widget: https://vicious.readthedocs.io/en/latest/widgets.html#vicious-widgets-thermal	string
net_interface	network interface to monitor: https://vicious.readthedocs.io/en/latest/widgets.html#vicious-widgets-net	string

Helper functions

A set of helper functions is provided to toggle the colorscheme using key bindings. This functionality is implemented in multiple steps:

1. The awesome colorscheme is updated. This involves updating the theme colors and regenerating all widgets.

2. wpgtk is used to update gtk and rofi themes.

   Note: remember to use wpg-install.sh to install the wpk templates for gtk, icons and rofi

3. sed is used to change the sublime text colorscheme.

   Note: the settings file is expected to be found under ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings

4. xsettingsd is used to change the icon theme.

Warning: This is optimized to work on my machine. You might want to check the implementation to avoid any damage to your system.

To use these functions import the utilities packages

local util = require('themes.ayu.util')

and add the following key bindings to your rc.lua:

...
awful.key(
    {modkey, altkey, 'Control'}, 'l', util.set_light,
    {description = 'set light colorscheme', group = 'theme'}
), awful.key(
    {modkey, altkey, 'Control'}, 'm', util.set_mirage,
    {description = 'set mirage colorscheme', group = 'theme'}
), awful.key(
    {modkey, altkey, 'Control'}, 'd', util.set_dark,
    {description = 'set dark colorscheme', group = 'theme'}
)
...

License

licensed under MIT License Copyright (c) 2020 Marcel Arpogaus. See LICENSE for further details.

Related projects

• ayu for Ace: https://github.com/ayu-theme/ayu-ace
• ayu colors as NPM package: https://github.com/ayu-theme/ayu-colors
• ayu for VSCode: https://github.com/teabyii/vscode-ayu
• ayu for XCode: https://github.com/vburojevic/ayu-xcode-theme
• ayu for Sublime Text 3: https://github.com/dempfi/ayu