Shift

Shift is a theme switcher tool to change your window manager setup, written in BASH. Shift can change winow manager theme , terminal colorscheme , and panel in single line command with available arguments.Shift automated to detect what window manager log in session you entered and check panel that are running in the background. shift currently support some window manager : Openbox, windowchef, and Xfce4/Xfwm4.

Preview

Window manager supported

• Openbox
• Windowchef
• Xfce4/Xfwm4

Requirements

What you might need :

• lemonbar, polybar and tint2 for panel options.
• wmctrl to get log in session of window manager.
• feh, nitrogen, hsetroot to set Wallpaper.
• xfconf to set GTK 3 themes and icons.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/noirecat/Shift.git
$ cd Shift
$ sudo make install

The Rules of Config

Example config of window manager include in this repo.

• Openbox autostart configuration file must include :

  • For polybar.

    polybar top/bottom -c ~/.config/polybar/panel &
    

  • For lemonbar.

    . ~/.config/lemonbar/panel &
    

  • For tint2.

    * tint2 -c ~/.config/tint2/[preset].tint2rc &
    

• Windowchef configuration file must be placed under :

   ~/.config/windowchef/windowchefrc  
  

  And include this line :

   ...
   export THEME="preset"
   ...
  

• Polybar configuration file must be under

    ~/.config/polybar/
  

• Lemonbar configuration file must be under

    ~/.config/lemonbar/
  

• Tint2 configuration file must be under

    ~/.config/tint2/
  

• Xresources should be under

    ~/.Xresources 
  

  And include this line:

    # include ".colors/[preset-name]"
  

Usage

Change setup include (terminal,wm gtk2/3 themes) in single line command.

$ Shift --setup [preset-name]

Change setup include (terminal,wm themes) with different panel.

$ Shift --setup [preset-name] --polybar|--lemonbar|--tint2 [panel-name]

Change gtk 3 themes and icons when you login in Xfce4/Xfwm4 session.

$ Shift --setup [themes-name] --icons [icons-name]

Backup all desktop configuration includes another wm that supported.

$ Shift --backup-all [dir-name]

Or, just backup the current window manager log in and the running panel in background.

$ Shift --backup [dir-name]

Installing another dotfiles into your system.

$ Shift --deploy [github-url]

Set a desktop wallpaper using third-party feh, nitrogen.

$ Shift --wall fill|tile 'path/to/your/image'

Available options:

Usage   : Shift [--options] preset [--options] preset
Example : Shift --setup arc --tint2 light

Options :
     --backup-all     Backup all configuration into dotfiles.
     --backup         Backup your desktop config into tarball.
     --deploy         Clone and install the dotfiles into your system.
     --icons          Change GTK2 / GTK 3 icons.
     --setup          Change setup of window manager.
     --wall           Set wallpaper to desktop.
     -v,--version     Show version.
     -h,--help        Show this help.

Contribute

If you want to add another window manager to this tools, just create an issues.

Credits

• Thanks to Allah.
• Archlinux as my favorite distro, check this (https://www.archlinux.org/).
• Dracos Linux from Indonesia, you can see in (http://dracos-linux.org/).
• Linuxer Desktop Art - group for sharing Linux/BSD desktop customization (https://web.facebook.com/groups/linuxart).
• BASH.ID - Group for discussing scripting for any other shell in the GNU/Linux (https://t.me/Bash_ID).
• Eye Candy Linux and r/unixporn for sharing resources about customization.
• Edo -maland-, Nanda Vera, Fikri Omar, and Addy.
• unix121 (https://github.com/unix121/i3wm-themer).
• nizarmah (https://github.com/nizarmah/tintedarc).
• And other users have shared their dotfiles.

License

The code is available under the MIT license.