A bash script that expands the usage of pywal16's colors and to ease the configuration.

Important

The script may work in the using the normal pywal but it may fail to complete some steps of this script, so please use this fork of pywal called pywal16 in order to complete some steps in the script, also the wallpapers are not uploaded in the repo, so please configure the wallpaper directory first.

preview.mp4

The youtube video showcases realtime theme changing.

FEATURES

• Finished

  • Dialog configuration along with pywal options.
  • A wallpaper can be set either to solid_color or image
  • Wallpaper setup options include [ fill, scale, max, fit, etc ]
  • Pywal colors to some configurable programs.( as toml config arrays )
  • Uses the pywal16 option to either have a wallpaper in a folder or just an image.
  • Support for animated gif wallpapers ( Does not support some gifs | it is a pywal16 limitation )
  • Gtk theming based Flat-Remix-GTK as base theme.
  • Icon theme colors based Flat-Remix icon pack.
  • Reload gtk and icon themes using xsettingd & gsettings.(only icon theme reloading in wayland)
  • Full Gif wallpaper support(please update to the latest pywal16 version).

• Unfinished

  • Gui config support using python-gi(this is a bit challenging)

SETUP

DEPENDENCIES

• Required

  • yq
  • pywal16
  • imagemagick

• Optional

  • python-gi [GUI configuration]
  • kdialog Dialog Configuration
  • xsettingsd [reload_gtk and icons]
  • libxapp-gtk3-module [gtk3 decorations]
  • gtk2-engines-murrine [for gtk2 support]
  • A wallpaper setter (optional):
    • feh
    • hsetroot
    • xwallpaper
    • nitrogen
    • xgifwallpaper (for gif wallpaper animations on x11)
    • swaybg
    • awww (for gif wallpaper on wayland) ...

DISTRO

• Debian ( or Other Debian based distro )

sudo apt install kdialog pipx yq imagemagick xwallpaper
pipx install pywal16

• Arch / AUR

# You can use something else that works for you like paru
yay -S kdialog pywal16 yq imagemagick xwallpaper

USAGE

Run the following commands in your terminal:

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/aKqir24/walset.git
  cd ~/walset

then use these option to configure it:

bash walsetup.sh [OPTION]
  --gui: To launch a configuration GUI and apply the configurations.
  --setup: Show dialogs that sets up the configurations in order.
  --reset: To remove all set features, and set them all to default.
  --verbose: To show log messages when each step of the script is executed.
  --help: to show how to use this script.
  --load: loads/applies the configurations

Note

Not all are covered like changing the values of a wm config file, in this script yet, so feel free to commit some improvements to it...

CONFIG

The config file is located in $HOME/.config/walset.toml. Here is a sample config, I recommend to use it cause it is much easier to setup:

[wallpaper]
cycle = "iterative"
type = "image"
path = "/home/akqir24/Pictures/Wallpapers"
mode = "fill"
animated = true

[theming]
gtk = true
icons = true
mode = "dark"
accent =2
[theming.programs]
i3status_rust="/home/akqir24/.files/.config/i3/status/config.toml" 
alacritty="/home/akqir24/.config/alacritty.toml"
rofi="/home/akqir24/.config/rofi/config.rasi"
dunst="/home/akqir24/.config/dunst/dunstrc"

[pywal16]
backend = "wal"
reload= true
light = true
colorscheme = "darken"

SPEACIAL THANKS

• deviantfero: wpgtk's templates for the gtk2/3 base theme.
• daniruiz: Flat-Remix-GTK for the gtk4 base theme.
• daniruiz: Flat-Remix-Icon_Pack for the base icon pack.
• eylles: build-gradience.py it helped me fixed the gtk4 issue.
• eylles: pywal16 which make this program possible.