awesome-awesome-wm

Main repository

Latest development build

While not terse, a very useful resource

Use this PPA instead of official which tends to be very old

Useful for figuring out things like is actually called so you can map your shortcuts

Dynamic Tagging

Those numbered tags in upper-left corner can now be renamed on the fly

Menu Replacement

Unlike default menu that looks very basic compared to other window managers, this menu replaces the original with a more -like menu with icons

Awesome Copycats

A collection of well-polished themes with distinct look and feel

Theme with fancy features

A beautiful theme with screenshots

Another polished theme

A theme showing that you don't have to settle for crappy ASCII art visuals

awesome-ban

A theme inspired by Copycats themes

awesome-pro

Pro theme updated to support Awesome 4.0

Minimalist theme

Minimalist theme with high level of customization

compton

High-performance compositor for those who like transparent windows

radical

Fancy generator for custom menus

Awesome Zen

Collection of widgets with a consistent interface that hides when they're not relevant to declutter your desktop. Also includes utilities for managing windows more effectively

Awesome WM Widgets

Good options for battery, music, CPU/RAM, and Volume widgets

Lain

Another set of polished Widgets for Awesome

Vicious

Contains modules that gather data about your system

Volume Icon

Stand-alone volume icon for lightweight WMs that fits well with nm-applet (C)

Network

A wireless + wired network widget that replaces nm-applet (Lua)

Battery

Stand-alone battery widget (C)

Weather

Widget that retrieves localized weather information from Yahoo

Basic Calendar

Simple, but pretty calendar

Calendar w/ TODO

(orglendar) A calendar + to-do list for awesome that reads entries from a .org file (I have a cronjob dumping my Google Calendar to that file) (Lua)

Pomodoro Timer

Hides clutter from the screen for 25 mins, replacing it with a progress bar (Lua)

awesome-scratch

A stashing area for window to declutter the workspace and easily recall programs, doesn't seem to be actively maintained

screenful

An extension that leverages udev to detect monitor connection/disconnection

autorandr

Automatically select xrandr display configuration based on connected devices

treesome

no longer maintained, a utility for splitting workspace in a manner similar to TMUX