Do not introduce timestamps in PNG files (for icons). See . --- awesome-3.4.15/CMakeLists.txt 2013-02-11 14:50:21.000000000 +0100 +++ awesome-3.4.15/CMakeLists.txt 2016-06-16 13:59:30.528125439 +0200 @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ macro(a_icon_convert match replacement i set(ALL_ICONS ${ALL_ICONS} ${output}) add_custom_command( - COMMAND ${CONVERT_EXECUTABLE} ${input} -strip ${ARGN} ${output} + COMMAND ${CONVERT_EXECUTABLE} +set date:create +set date:modify -define png:exclude-chunk=time ${input} -strip ${ARGN} ${output} OUTPUT ${output} DEPENDS ${input} VERBATIM)