How could I make a Dwm-flexipatch template for python-pywal16?

[osvajac0]

in these 2 days, I tried to make templates for Xresources yet I couldn't find how would I apply pywal colors on them. have anyone of you made a Dwm or Xresources templates?

[bakkeby]

It is fairly straightforward to create a template for pywal.

There is an example template for dwm here:
https://github.com/eylles/pywal16/blob/master/pywal/templates/colors-wal-dwm.h

You'd just need to expand that to include additional colour schemes depending on what you use.

This naturally requires compilation and restart to take effect.

As for Xresources there is this template:
https://github.com/eylles/pywal16/blob/master/pywal/templates/colors.Xresources

The resources that dwm-flexipatch reads can be found here:

dwm-flexipatch/patch/xrdb.c

Lines 19 to 117 in 30f6e5c

	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normfgcolor", normfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normbgcolor", normbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normbordercolor", normbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normfloatcolor", normfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selfgcolor", selfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selbgcolor", selbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selbordercolor", selbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selfloatcolor", selfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titlenormfgcolor", titlenormfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titlenormbgcolor", titlenormbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titlenormbordercolor", titlenormbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titlenormfloatcolor", titlenormfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titleselfgcolor", titleselfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titleselbgcolor", titleselbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titleselbordercolor", titleselbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.titleselfloatcolor", titleselfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsnormfgcolor", tagsnormfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsnormbgcolor", tagsnormbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsnormbordercolor", tagsnormbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsnormfloatcolor", tagsnormfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsselfgcolor", tagsselfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsselbgcolor", tagsselbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsselbordercolor", tagsselbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.tagsselfloatcolor", tagsselfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.hidnormfgcolor", hidnormfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.hidnormbgcolor", hidnormbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.hidselfgcolor", hidselfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.hidselbgcolor", hidselbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.urgfgcolor", urgfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.urgbgcolor", urgbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.urgbordercolor", urgbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.urgfloatcolor", urgfloatcolor);
	#if BAR_LTSYMBOL_SCHEME_PATCH
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.ltsymbolfgcolor", ltsymbolfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.ltsymbolbgcolor", ltsymbolbgcolor);
	#endif // BAR_LTSYMBOL_SCHEME_PATCH
	#if RENAMED_SCRATCHPADS_PATCH
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchselfgcolor", scratchselfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchselbgcolor", scratchselbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchselbordercolor", scratchselbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchselfloatcolor", scratchselfloatcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchnormfgcolor", scratchnormfgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchnormbgcolor", scratchnormbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchnormbordercolor", scratchnormbordercolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.scratchnormfloatcolor", scratchnormfloatcolor);
	#endif // RENAMED_SCRATCHPADS_PATCH
	#if BAR_FLEXWINTITLE_PATCH
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normTTBbgcolor", normTTBbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normLTRbgcolor", normLTRbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normMONObgcolor", normMONObgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normGRIDbgcolor", normGRIDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normGRD1bgcolor", normGRD1bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normGRD2bgcolor", normGRD2bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normGRDMbgcolor", normGRDMbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normHGRDbgcolor", normHGRDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normDWDLbgcolor", normDWDLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normSPRLbgcolor", normSPRLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.normfloatbgcolor", normfloatbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actTTBbgcolor", actTTBbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actLTRbgcolor", actLTRbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actMONObgcolor", actMONObgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actGRIDbgcolor", actGRIDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actGRD1bgcolor", actGRD1bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actGRD2bgcolor", actGRD2bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actGRDMbgcolor", actGRDMbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actHGRDbgcolor", actHGRDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actDWDLbgcolor", actDWDLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actSPRLbgcolor", actSPRLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.actfloatbgcolor", actfloatbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selTTBbgcolor", selTTBbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selLTRbgcolor", selLTRbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selMONObgcolor", selMONObgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selGRIDbgcolor", selGRIDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selGRD1bgcolor", selGRD1bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selGRD2bgcolor", selGRD2bgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selGRDMbgcolor", selGRDMbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selHGRDbgcolor", selHGRDbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selDWDLbgcolor", selDWDLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selSPRLbgcolor", selSPRLbgcolor);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("dwm.selfloatbgcolor", selfloatbgcolor);
	#endif // BAR_FLEXWINTITLE_PATCH
	#if BAR_STATUS2D_XRDB_TERMCOLORS_PATCH && BAR_STATUS2D_PATCH
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color0", termcol0);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color1", termcol1);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color2", termcol2);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color3", termcol3);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color4", termcol4);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color5", termcol5);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color6", termcol6);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color7", termcol7);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color8", termcol8);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color9", termcol9);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color10", termcol10);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color11", termcol11);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color12", termcol12);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color13", termcol13);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color14", termcol14);
	XRDB_LOAD_COLOR("color15", termcol15);
	#endif // BAR_STATUS2D_XRDB_TERMCOLORS_PATCH

When you have created your template then you need to place it somewhere where pywal can read it.

For me that was under /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pywal/templates/. I haven't looked into whether it checks other directories as well.

You can test with a single entry, e.g.

$ cat dwm.Xresources
dwm.selbgcolor: {color2}

and when you use wal to change the colour scheme a corresponding file should be placed under ~/.cache/wal/, e.g.

$ cat ~/.cache/wal/dwm.Xresources
dwm.selbgcolor: #d79921

In your .Xresources file you can simply include that generated file:

#include ".cache/wal/dwm.Xresources"

Naturally you will also need to reload resources.

$ xrdb ~/.Xresources

and reload resources within dwm either by a kill signal, keybinding or one of the IPC methods.

The main challenge will be to choose which colours to assign to which resource in order to get a half decent end result.