Feature request: color schemes for pywall

[Migacz85]

I like many other people found out that ranger is losing colors setup by pywall. And I found that troubling to setup it correctly.
Ranger is losing colors in situation when:

opening a file in text editor ( after closing it and coming back to ranger colors are original)
running custom shell function ( for this I found workaround just to include ; wal -R & but this is just ugly solution)

It is possible just to create some compability function for pywal that user can set it up like:

set color_scheme pywall

For using colors schemes that are located in .cache/wal/

?

[toonn]

To be quite frank I'm not sure what you're asking. I had no idea pywall did anything to ranger. And I have no idea how they change ranger's colorscheme. Ranger supports some RPC so it's potentially already possible.

[vifon]

From what I gather, pywal changes the terminal's colorscheme, not just ranger's. Now the question is how it does so since any "regular" customizations are not being erased. This ugly solution you found doesn't seem too bad considering ranger might need pywal to constantly "fix" the colors at this point.

Essentially further research required (why don't we have such tag yet?).

[vifon]

Here, I created it. :)

[Migacz85]

I was thinking about that, the problem with ranger is that after reentering in to ranger again the colors are automaticaly setup by ranger colorscheme - there should be some option to completly turn off controling the colors by ranger. And that could potentialy solve the problem.

[Migacz85]

If you have pywall installed
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal
You can look in ~/.cahe/wal/ folder
There are a bunch of nicely specified colors that are in python, bash, css, scss, json.

The question is how to implement them to ranger in the best possible way ?

[Migacz85]

After reading this:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/master/doc/colorschemes.md

I think it would be best to create a colorscheme .py that will import colors from pywall files.
Structure should be simmilar to jungle.py snow.py default.py files. Located in:

Colorschemes are searched for in these directories:

~/.config/ranger/colorschemes/
/path/to/ranger/colorschemes/

But I'm not quite sure where is the file located when refferencing to import in this part of the code in this files:

from ranger.gui.color import (
black, blue, cyan, green, magenta, red, white, yellow, default,
normal, bold, reverse, dim, BRIGHT,
default_colors,
)

[Jitsusama]

I took a look at this, and those colours are mapped to curses colours which are integers starting from 0. I'm pretty sure that they map to the terminal colours 0-15. What I don't understand is how they end up getting over-ridden. I suspect that it might be the curses library itself doing this, though I haven't dug in far enough to validate this.

[Jitsusama]

I tried something else. I use Kitty as my terminal. I pointed Kitty at my ~/.cache/wal/colors-kitty.conf file instead of catting ~/.cache/wal/sequences and it seems to have fixed everything up with Ranger.

[hbthen3rd]

Is there a way to support the cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences & method?
I use iTerm2, and pywal set iTerm2 color scheme by doing cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences - which seems to NOT get updated when default.py import colors 0-15 from terminal colors.