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docs(tutorial): Improve instructions to edit theme 

Fixes #3306.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Schwiderski <lucas@lschwiderski.de>
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## Change the theme
Awesome has four themes you can choose from: *default*, *sky*, *xresources*, and
*zenburn*.
Awesome has four builtin themes you can choose from: *default*, *sky*,
*xresources*, and *zenburn*.
To change the theme, open your rc.lua and edit this line near the beginning of
the file:
To change the theme, open your `rc.lua`, find this line near the beginning of
the file, and change `default` to one of the other values mentioned:
beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_themes_dir() .. "default/theme.lua")
For this tutorial we will stick with the default theme.
Now we will customize the theme. Copy
`/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua` to `~/.config/awesome/` and change
the above line in your theme like this (remember to replace `USER` with your
user name):
However, for this tutorial we will copy and customize the default theme.
Copy `/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua` to `~/.config/awesome/`
and change the line shown above in `rc.lua` like this. Make sure to replace
`USER` with your user name.
beautiful.init("/home/USER/.config/awesome/theme.lua")