edited version of https://github.com/coleifer 's themer
Thank you coleifer for letting us use your code for the base; Thanks jimble from #rice for helping with the symbolic linking; Shoutout to #rice for all their constructive criticism and helping me without complaining too much.
###HEAVY work in progress. Don't expect anything to work yet, you can try if you want to though.
Still a WIP, but it's worked for a couple people who've tried it. Submit bugs and issues!
###the road so far... Screenshots will now be on my github page,
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ###webm of it in action
#WOAH NELLY ##first major update, now supports creating a theme with either i3 or lemonbar
use
./themer.py -l generate lemon_theme ~/lemon_bg.png
to generate a theme with a simple lemonbar to match the console (still have to work on matching to color of the transparency to the terminal)
PREREQS: i3-gaps by Airblader
i3status (sudo dnf install i3status)
python-yaml and python-jinja2 (sudo dnf install python-yaml python-jinja2
feh (fedora: sudo dnf install feh)
OPTIONAL: lemonbar if you want to generate a lemonbar in your theme
compton if you want to take advantage of the compton config and make your own.
##Just did a fresh install of Fedora 22 64bit Workstation, will be seeing how easy it is to get this running from scratch.
this is a play by play of how it went
fresh install; installed weechat.
installed dependencies as told by wiki page
installed urxvt for terminal (sudo dnf install rxvt-unicode)
installed python-yaml and python-jinja2 for themer.py
sudo dnf install python-yaml python-jinja2
installed dmenu because it didn't come with i3gaps
sudo dnf install dmenu
got i3-gaps from Airblader's github page follow his instructions for installing
sudo dnf upgrade, restarting into i3-gaps now
did not have the option to boot into i3, ended up getting disabling gdm login and starting i3 via an xinitrc
###only do this if you can not log into an i3 session AT ALL
systemctl disable gdm
make a ~/.xinitrc file, should have the lines
#!/usr/bin/bash exec i3
###only do the above if you can not log into an i3 session AT ALL
###you might need to change ownership of the themer directory(i didn't originally, I did after a fresh install) running themer.py will tell you if you get an error creating /home/your_username/.config/themer/current, if so do this
in order for themer.py to work, you may need to change ownership of the themer directory
chown -R $USER /home/$USER/.config/themer
personally had trouble getting terminus font to work, switched to fixed for now
before running themer once to create the directories and theme, rename your ~/.config/i3/config to ~/.config/i3/config.bak and ~/.i3status.conf to ~/.i3status.conf.bak and ~/.Xresources to ~/.Xresources.bak. This will save you headaches if you don't like themer and want your old themes back.
After running themer once, it should create the ~/.config/themer/current directory.
ln -s ~/.config/themer/current/i3.conf ~/.config/i3/config
ln -s ~/.config/themer/current/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf
should now be working with my default setup (background set + colors set for urxvt and i3bar + gaps
after making a theme, you can go into ~/.config/themer/theme_name and edit the xresources and i3status and i3 conf to your liking, and next time you activate the theme, the changes should apply
if anyone wants to test this so far and see what works and what doesn't, message me on reddit(/u/suhmedoh) and let me know how it goes or open an issue, or check irc.freenode.net #doughpit and talk to me on there (nick is either jiaxsun or jiaxsun_)
disclaimer: I will only discuss the options i'm currently working on, I take no resposibility if other things don't work or break
find a directory you want to store these files in eg. ~/rice git clone http://github.com/suhmedoh/themer.edit
create a new directory
/.config/themer/templates/ copy(or move; i recommend copying so you have a copy of the originals if you screw somethign up) /i3/ and /lemon/ to there (/.config/themer/templates/i3 and ~/.config/themer/templates/lemon are the new directories)
ln -s ~/.config/themer/current/i3.conf ~/.config/i3/config
ln -s ~/.config/themer/current/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf
FOR COMPTON
ln -s ~/.config/themer/current/compton.conf ~/.config/compton.conf
#####themer.py options
./themer.py generate ./themer.py activate ./themer.py list ./themer.py delete ./themer.py -d, -t, -s, -t
./themer.py -d
enables debugging, making it easier to see what when wrong/what's happening
./themer.py -t
can be given either -t lemon or -t i3 (defaults to i3 when no option given), chooses which panel for the theme
./themer.py -s
will generate MY firefox startpage. You can edit the startpage.tpl to change what links get generated, you also need the firefox new tab override addon, and you simply set it to point at ~/.config/themer/current/startpage.html
./themer.py -t
stands for template. You can omit it to generate i3status bar, or use -t lemon to generate a lemon bar. IMPORTANT: when generating the theme, it should spawn the lemonbar for you, but if you want it to start the bar when you activate the theme after switching from it previously (ie. you make the theme, switch to an i3status theme, then switch back to a lemonbar theme) you need to either name your theme with -l at the end (./themer.py -s -t lemon generate cool_lemon_theme-l ~/backgrounds/lemoney.png) or use the -t lemon flag when activating the theme (./themer.py -t lemon activate lemon_theme). will work on fixing this in the future.
./themer.py -s generate samurai ~/Pictures/background/samurai.png
will create a theme which sets the background on all monitors, creates and sets the xresource file(works with urxvt, haven't tried other terminals yet), sets i3gaps with the gaps I like, no borders or scroll bars, sets i3status/bar to use the color scheme generated, sets dmenu to use the color scheme, and generates a firefox startpage. After running this, give it time to complete, then it will ask you if you want to activate the theme or not
./themer.py activate bokeh
Will activate the already generated theme bokeh. This will switch your i3 config, color scheme, and background to the new theme; your previous theme (if generated from themer.py) will be saved
./themer.py list
will generate a list of themes, which you can then run ./themer.py activate theme to use
./themer.py delete bad_theme
Will delete the theme named bad_theme
IF dmenu no longer shows any of your applications(happened to me randomly, not sure what caused it) try deleting ~/.cache/dmenu_run
###currently working on:
done creating a basic lemonbar which uses colors from Xresources, and generating the script for it w/ themer
done, can use i3 or lemonbar, more options ~later maybe integrating an option to choose which panel you want to create when you generate a theme
###(eventual) to do list:
generate themes for other tiling WMs(if possible?)
generate themes for text editors (sublime, emacs, vim)
generate themes for panels (lemonbar tint2, i3status, pystatus)
generate themes for program launchers(dmenu, demnu2, rofi, lighthouse)
generate themes for irc clients(does by default; maybe independent themes?)
generate stylish firefox css based off twily's(?)
generate start pages(done, can edit teh template to use your own links)
generate colorschemes for different terminals (should already work for any terminal using Xresources)
generate color schemes for other popular apps( suggestions?)
make it simpler
auto symlink the config files(?)
make it work for a wide variety of systems/WMs
bspwm, awesome, dwm, etc? (need to see how their configs work)
make it easier for new users to tinker with their themes after making it
output paths to files they would be interested in (.xresources, i3.conf)