diff --git a/docs/07-my-first-awesome.md b/docs/07-my-first-awesome.md
index 848bf5c9..d7e2de44 100644
--- a/docs/07-my-first-awesome.md
+++ b/docs/07-my-first-awesome.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Awesome has four themes you can choose from: *default*, *sky*, *xresources*, and
 To change the theme, open your rc.lua and edit this line near the beginning of
 the file:
 
-    beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_dir("config") .. "/themes/default/theme.lua")
+    beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_themes_dir() .. "default/theme.lua")
 
 For this tutorial we will stick with the default theme.