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Wal Color Theme

Link: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal The repository was archived. But the functions sill work.

Original name call wal, then it change to call pywal.

It is a tool for generate and change color-schemes for system or some software

Use this command to checkout all the avaliable themes

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wal --theme

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The most interesting command is it can pass image file and base on image tone to get match theme scheme.

So I used this command to switch the background image from folder randomly and generate color scheme:

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wal -i ~/wallpaper

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It will show the change on your terminal immediately.

Here is my wrapper script that randomly select themes I like.

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# Check if 'wal' is not installed
if ! command -v wal &> /dev/null; then
  echo "Error: 'wal' is not installed. Please install pywal first."
  exit 1
fi

wal_log="/tmp/wal-theme"

# List of available themes
themes=(
  "3024"
  "ashes"
  "base16-atelier-forest"
  "base16-atelier-savanna"
  "base16-black-metal-bathory"
  "base16-black-metal-burzum"
  "base16-black-metal-khold"
  "base16-black-metal-mayhem"
  "base16-bright"
  "base16-chalk"
  "base16-gruvbox-medium"
  "base16-harmonic"
  "base16-irblack"
  "base16-materia"
  "base16-monokia"
  "base16-nord"
  "sexy-colorfulcolors"
  "sexy-hund"
  "base16-rebecca"
  "sexy-material"
  "sexy-orangish"
  "sexy-sexcolors"
  "sexy-rydgel"
  "sexy-theme2"
  "sexy-belge"
  "sexy-belge"
  "tempus_future"
  "tempus_rift"
  "tempus_summer"
  "tempus_winter"
  "vscode"
  "solarized -l"
)

random_theme="${themes[RANDOM % ${#themes[@]}]}"
echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'): $random_theme" >> $wal_log
notify-send "Switch color scheme: $random_theme" -t 2000
wal --theme "$random_theme"

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base16-gruvbox-medium: base16-gruvbox-medium tempus_summer: tempus_summer