Config via Configuration file?

[breuerfelix]

Is there a way to configure the binary via file?
If i want to start it via brew services, i don't know how to pass configuration to the binary.

Of if this is possible, maybe you could says something about it in the readme?

Cheers
Felix

[FelixKratz]

The idea is that you can change the properties at any time with a new invocation of the borders command, i.e. while the brew service is running:

borders width=6.0 active_color=0xff00ff00

But I guess having a file which is executed at launch would help with ease of use.

[FelixKratz]

A config file is now invoked if started without any arguments (e.g. when brew starts the process) at ~/.config/borders/bordersrc

[acicovic]

Hello there, I'm using a brew service and my attempts to load settings from a ~/.config/borders/bordersrc file have failed.

First, I tried to paste the arguments in the file as we would pass them to the executable. This didn't work, so my second attempt was to copy homebrew.mxcl.borders.plist's contents into it. In both cases, I verified that there was execute permission. None of this worked for me.

This might seem like a basic question, but could we have some documentation that explains how that file should look with a simple couple of options?

Thank you for your work. I absolutely love borders 🙂

[FelixKratz]

No worries, the file should look like this:
https://github.com/FelixKratz/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/borders/bordersrc
the file is simply executed via fork->exec and then interpreted as a shell script by bash. In the script we call the borders process again to update the properties on launch. I decided to use a bash array to make the options easier to configure.
I will add an example to the documentation.

[breuerfelix]

And the file needs to have executeable permissions :)

[acicovic]

Thank you both! My first attempts to make this work didn't work out, but it's OK. I may try again at a later time.

[acicovic]

OK, so I was using a gradient and this wasn't working:

active_color=gradient(top_left=0xff00ff00,bottom_right=0xff0000ff)

Adding the value into double quotes made it work:

active_color="gradient(top_left=0xff00ff00,bottom_right=0xff0000ff)"