AwesomeWM - How to change statusbar font colors and font itself

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My current awesome WM theme has some ugly colors that I want to change and I want to change the font from what I believe is Terminus to Monospace. This is all for the status bar at the top btw.

-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal
-- }}}

Is the only thing relating to Menubar in my rc.lua

I also changed stuff in theme.lua and when I restarted none of the changes were applied. — Hae0, Aug 14 '14 at 23:55

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 17 '14 at 06:00

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I just fixed this for myself. In the theme.lua file for my active theme, I had this:

theme.font = 'sans 8'

I changed it to inconsolata 13, restarted awesome, and the status bar auto-expanded to fit the new font.

As for font color, you can change that with the theme.fg_* settings (theme.fg_normal, theme.fg_focused, theme.fg_urgent).

edited Nov 17 '14 at 06:00

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answered Sep 23 '14 at 14:45

AvianFlu

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... What about the font color tho? – Not Amused Nov 02 '14 at 18:43
I'm using the default theme, and although this works using `theme.font = "16"` there is zero padding around the text, and it overlaps with the tiny squares. – l0b0 Nov 01 '16 at 23:19

AwesomeWM - How to change statusbar font colors and font itself

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