Garden

Packages

DE          : Manjaro
WM          : Leftwm
terminal    : Alacritty
bar         : Polybar
launcher    : Rofi
file manager: Dolphin

Screenshot

Dependencies

• leftwm-git
• picom-jonaburg-git
• polybar
• nerd-fonts-inter
• rofi
• dunst (Optional for Notifications)
• trayer (Optional, see Systray Configuration section)
• feh

Installation via leftwm-theme

If you have leftwm-theme installed, you can install this theme directly within LeftWM using the following commands:

leftwm-theme update
leftwm-theme install Garden
leftwm-theme apply Garden

Manual Installation

1. Install all required dependencies

2. cd into your Themes directory

cd $HOME/.config/leftwm/themes

3. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/taylor85345/leftwm-theme-garden.git Garden

4. Remove the symlink to your current theme if set

rm current

5. Set this as your current theme

ln -s Garden current

6. Restart your window manager

$MOD + Shift + r

Configuration

• Tag Bar

  The Tag Switcher in Polybar assigns icons based on your tag names as defined in your $HOME/.config/leftwm/config.toml. To match the icons in my screenshots, please copy the tags = line out of misc/configs/leftwm/config.toml into your config.toml

• Default Apps script

  I've included the default_app script (assigned to the '+' in polybar) which assigns a program to each tag and opens whichever application is assigned to the currently focused tag. You can edit the script, or you can copy misc/default_apps.sh to $HOME/.config/leftwm and edit that file if you want your selections to survive leftwm-theme updates.

  By default, the script will launch the following

  TERM=alacritty
  BROWSER=firefox
  DOC=libreoffice
  FILE=dolphin
  PLAYER=vlc
  GAME=steam
  PHOTO=gimp
  SANDBOX=virtualbox
  DEV="alacritty -e vim";

• Application Theming

  For consistency, I use the following themes in GTK and QT apps:

  • QT5/Kvantum: Inverse-dark
  • GTK: gtk-theme-breath

  I highly recommend using QT5 applications with this theme, particularly those made for the KDE desktop environment, and applying the Inverse-dark theme via qt5ct and kvantum-manager.

• Fetch Script

  If for some reason you want to use my fetch script, you will need to install Macchina and copy my config folder ou of misc/configs/macchina to your $HOME/.config/macchina, and add the following to your .bashrc:

  macchina

• Systray

  If you find that the systray module "^" runs a little slow, there is an alternate option that requires trayer as a dependency. Just got to the [module/systray] section of configs/polybar.config in the theme folder and comment out the click-left and click-right lines, then uncomment the matching lines with the trayer command.

• Miscellaneous Configuration For reference, I have included several miscellaneous files in the misc/ folder which are not directly used by the theme, but are available to help with theming applications to match. I have included my config.toml for LeftWM, my config files for Alacritty/Kitty, the ASCII art from my macchina greeter, one or two scripts whose function is explained in the comments of the script, and my Wallpaper selection*.

Credits

This theme is heavily based on the Linear theme for AwesomeWM by manilarome(https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles), and I have borrowed several configs and scripts from that theme. The base LeftWM configs were modified from the Dracula Rounded theme by AethanFoot (https://github.com/AethanFoot/leftwm-theme-dracula-rounded). I've still got some mismatched Dracula configs hanging around, and I'll be removing/updating those in the near future.

*All provided wallpapers are clips taken from the film Garden of Words (2013) and are legally property of the owners of that film. I believe that my inclusion of these images constitutes Fair Use, but I am not an expert on copyright law and will gladly comply with any requests for the removal of these images.