Colors in awesome

awesome 2.x

Changing the colors in awesome is pretty simple. Just edit your .awesomerc, and modify the following values:

 colors
 {
   normal_border = "#222222"
   normal_bg = "#222222"
   normal_fg = "#919191"
   focus_border = "#99ccff"
   focus_bg = "#222222"
   focus_fg = "#ffffff"
   urgent_fg = "#ffffff"
   urgent_bg = "#D53737"
 }

awesome 2.3

There are different sections for the type of color:

   styles
   {
       ####
       # colors in this theme
       # #604040 Maroon
       # #606040 Dark Olive Green
       # #222211 Darker Olive Green
       # #a0a0a0 Light Grey
       # #402020
       ####
       normal
       {
           #font = "sans 8"
           # use the silkscreen font from kottke.org
           font = "silkscreen 6"
           fg = "#808080"
           bg = "#222211"
           border = "#222222"
       }
       focus
       {
           fg = "#a0a0a0"
           bg = "#606040"
           border = "#FFFFFF"
       }
       urgent
       {
           fg = "#FFFFFF"
           bg = "#D53737"
       }
    }

The colors are simple RGB entries, exactly the same as HTML color codes. You can lookup these color codes all over the internet and mix and match to suite your needs.

awesome 3

awesome 3 uses pango-markup for gettings styles: [[1]].

See also Beautiful