_{Design By Achno}

  
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Overview 🖼️

Gowall is a tool to convert an image ( specifically a wallpaper ) to any color-scheme / pallete you like! It also offers a bunch of image processing features (image to pixel art, Image upscaling, color palette extraction...)

Docs

Gowall is really well documented with visual examples: https://achno.github.io/gowall-docs/ 🠔

Features

❗ Gowall although a CLI, has an Image preview feature so it can print the image in the terminal

Feature	Explanation	Documentation (Visual examples)
Convert a Wallpaper's theme	Transforms the color scheme of the image to your favorite theme (catppuccin, everforest, tokyo...) to match your system's theme	here
Convert an image to pixel art	Transforms your image to the typical blocky appearance of pixel art	here
Image Upscaling (Adversarial networks 👾)	Image upscaling increases the resolution of the image while preserving or enhancing its quality. Can also be used to deblur images.	here
Change Image format	Change format from .webp to .png, for example	here
Invert image colors	Flips the colors of an image (a very underrated feature)	here
Replace a specific color in an image	Changes a specific color in the image to another	here
Extract the color palette	Finds the dominant or all colors in an image (similar to pywal)	here
Draw on the Image	Draw borders, shapes, and effects	here
Remove the background of the image	Removes the background from an image	here
Daily wallpapers	Explore community-voted wallpapers that reset daily	here

Themes 🎨

The currently supported themes are featured below, if your favourite theme is missing open an issue or a pull request

All themes can be shown (both default and user-created via ~/.config/gowall/config.yml) by gowall list

• Catppuccin Mocha
• Nord
• Everforest
• Solarized
• Gruvbox
• Dracula
• Tokyo-dark/storm/moon
• Onedark

Click to see more themes

• Material
• Atom One Light
• Sweet
• Synthwave 84
• Atom Dark
• Oceanic Next
• Shades of Purple
• Arc Dark
• Sunset Aurant
• Sunset Saffron
• Sunset Tangerine
• Cyberpunk
• Night Owl
• Github Light (black & white)

Community Themes 🌐

Themes that were requested by the community and added to gowall

• Srcery

Create your own Theme

Step 1. Create the directory and file : ~/.config/gowall/config.yml

Step 2. Paste the below template and change the name and hex values for your theme

themes:
  - name: "placeholder1"
    colors:
      - "#F5E0DC"
      - "#F2CDCD"
      - "#F5C2E7"
      - "#CBA6F7"
      - "#F38BA8"
      - "#EBA0AC"
      - "#FAB387"
      - "#F9E2AF"
      - "#A6E3A1"
      - "#94E2D5"
      - "#89DCEB"
      - "#74C7EC"
      - "#89B4FA"
      - "#B4BEFE"
      - "#CDD6F4"
      - "#BAC2DE"
      - "#A6ADC8"
      - "#9399B2"
      - "#7F849C"
      - "#6C7086"
      - "#585B70"
      - "#45475A"
      - "#313244"
      - "#1E1E2E"
      - "#181825"
      - "#11111B"
  - name: "placeholder2"
    colors:
      - "#F73253"
      - "#FA39DF"
      - "#005382"
      - "#123456"

Notes 🗒️ :

• Duplicate theme names will not be loaded

Usage ⚙️

1. Singe conversion

  gowall convert path/to/img.png -t <theme-name>

• Replace a single color with another

   gowall convert /path/to/img.png -r #312424,#1D1C2D

Notes 🗒️ :

• path/to/img.png does not have to be an absolute path. You can use a relative path with the ~ ex. ~/Pictures/img.png
• you can find the list of all the themes via gowall list check number 6. as well

2. Batch conversion

     gowall convert -b path/img.png,path/im2.png -t <theme-name-lowercase>

   ⚠️ Do not leave any white spaces between the comma , , do it like this : path/img.png,path/im2.png

3. Invert colors

    gowall invert path/to/img.png

   You can also batch invert colors with :

    gowall invert -b path/img.png,path/img2.png

   
   

4. Convert a whole Directory

   Use the # delimiter to convert every image file under that directory

    gowall convert ~/Pictures/# -t catppuccin
   
    gowall invert ~/Pictures/test/# 

   Notes 🗒️ : Only png jpeg jpg webp images will be converted any other directory or other file will be ignored

   
   

5. List all theme names

    gowall list

   Notes 🗒️: You can view the colors of a theme by using the -t flag Example:

    gowall list -t catppuccin

   You can also open up a hex preview app in your default browser via the -p flag Example : gowall list -pt catppuccin

7. Image previewing

   Image previewing is available for single image processing and is ON by default

   Examples : gowall convert ~/Pictures/img.png and gowall invert ~/Pictures/img.png

   You can disable it by adding the following inside your ~/.config/gowall/config.yml

   EnableImagePreviewing: false

   
   
   
   

8. Pallete extraction ( Like pywal )

   You can extract the color pallete of an image as shown below :

   gowall extract /path/to/img.png -c 6

   The -c flag specifies how many hex color codes to return ( Personally i recommend between 6-16 with 6-7 being my go to). This will print the color codes to the terminal. In order for you to view all the colors of the hex codes at once you can use the -p flag.

   gowall extract /path/to/img.png -pc 6

   That will open a hex code previwer in your default web browser

9. Wallpaper of the Day

   View beautiful wallpapers that reset daily

   gowall -w

   You can see an example here

   
   

10. Changing formats

    Change the format of an image, the available formats are png jpeg jpg webp

     gowall convert ~/Pictures/img.webp -f png

11. Adding a border

    Using the draw command you can draw a border and specify the color, thickness etc... The below draws a border 5px thick with the color #5D3FD3

      gowall draw ~/Pictures/img.png -c #5D3FD3 -b 5

    

Installation 📦

Arch linux - AUR

yay -S gowall

NixOS - ( Maintainer : Emily Trau )

  environment.systemPackages = [
    pkgs.gowall
  ];

More installation options : here

Void Linux - XBPS-SRC ( Maintainer : elbachir-one )

Assuming you have void-packages

git clone https://github.com/elbachir-one/void-templates
cd void-templates/ && cp -r gowall/ void-packages/srcpkgs/
cd void-packages/
./xbps-src pkg gowall
sudo xbps-install -R hostdir/binpkgs gowall

Build from source

🔨 Clone the repo, build the project and move it inside your $PATH

git clone https://github.com/Achno/gowall
cd gowall
go build
sudo cp gowall /usr/local/bin/
gowall

Notes 🗒️ : You dont have to use sudo cp gowall /usr/local/bin/ if you have $GOPATH setup correctly Eg. you have the following in your .zshrc / .bashrc

export GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN

And simply use go install

go install github.com/Achno/gowall@latest

Contributions 🤝

If you wish to contribute by adding a new theme please open an issue I would also be very happy if you can provide the rgb values of your theme as well :) but not required if it's popular

Feel free to suggest any cool features that would improve gowall even further by opening an issue