Multiple Color Themes In Dmenu And Other Programs

[@kevyyar]

How can we include these changes to our DTOS? Is it possible to pull these changes?

[@DistroTube]

Run a sudo pacman -Syu. You should have new versions of dtos-alacritty, dtos-conky and dtos-xmobar available. These packages install the new configs in /etc/dtos. Copy the configs from /etc/dtos into $HOME. dmenu-distrotube places its source code in /opt/dmenu-distrotube.

[@NoveyBoy]

I would love to see a series like "let we do it together" start from installation of your operating system till finished and polished os. Just they way you should do it and of course with guided info.😄

[@SadeeshSenevirathne]

you mean "let us "

[@FactExplorers0]

Totally!

[@paulzupan3732]

That might take a while but I agree that it sounds awesome

[@programorprogrammed]

Good work DT!

[@Oakz]

Well, Dunno if its because I'm quite stoned right now, but: A - In order to have a minimal OS you need less bloat B - So to have less bloat you use a WM C - In order to customize my WM you bloat your config files Nice project though... Really like your content and as far as now I'm quite a recurrent viewer.

[@WildVoltorb]

DTOS is all about bloating Xmonad. Maybe you're missing something

[@f23anone82]

There is big difference between bloat loaded on you by distro developer or your own bloat.

[@wojtekburzynski654]

Now we need script that would set all of those themes desktop-wide.

[@DistroTube]

You already know where I'm heading with all of this.

[@justthebeginning1448]

@@DistroTube Plz & thank you in advance!👍🏻💥

[@sinpi314]

@@DistroTube new additions to dtos?

[@drishalballaney]

​@@DistroTube The Linux Cast also created a rofi menu to change the color schemes of alacritty maybe you can also implement it for all other stuff as well

[@magnusjohansson2261]

dmenu is easy to theme since it takes colors as cmd options when you run it

[@clocked0]

I found that out the other day when I changed my dwm colorscheme, and discovered that low and behold, so did dmenu's. I used rofi before dmenu, so finding that out was a nice breath of fresh air

[@WildVoltorb]

Yeah, you don't even need to mess with the source code to do that

[@f23anone82]

How to set doom emacs to show suggestions in a floating window, like at 1:55?

[@ArtemSmaznov]

Hi DT, big fan here. For the last week or so I have actually been working on a dm-script (DT inspired) that switches the color scheme of all the programs I have in one go. Thanks for this as it would be very helpful to add your color schemes configs to mine as I only have 2 for now.

[@sassymenses]

vodka babooshka

[@nichtgestalt]

I bet somehow you can write a shell script do put all the Commands showed in this video into a nice little Dmenu prompt. Wasn't there this one line text editor called Ed? I'm not really skilled in scripting at all but somebody who is more familiar with all these cli-utils can surely write a decent script to change the themes on the fly :D Thanks for sharing this. I wantet something litke that for the st terminal but I gave up since the Xresources patch messed up my keybindings... Guess the #import line in the dmenu file works in st as well? Until next time, Derek! Have a nice day!

[@juryrigging]

Isn't there an Xresources patch for dmenu?

[@edbeckerich3737]

Updating Arch has been stopped due to ffmpeg, what to do??

[@mjdxp5688]

Adding color schemes to everything is like the software equivalent of putting an excessive amount of RGB lights in your PC

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

Recently got into DWM and just set it up to look like a terminal application when no windows are opened.

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Wouldn't it be easier if you made separate files for each color scheme for alacritty and then imported them into the alacritty config ? Then all people would have to do is uncomment that file from the alacritty config.

[@WildVoltorb]

Can you even do that on a .yml file? I mean, imports, includes

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

@@WildVoltorb yep. That's how they do it on the dracula theme on their website.

[@light-gray]

hey DT, Do you know anything about HDR on Linux?

[@oalfodr]

Wouldn't it be better to read colors from xresources and make some of these programs (like dmenu) read values directly from it?

[@oalfodr]

Dmenu also takes color as a input parameter so when needed you can adjust colors like for high priority prompts.

[@NUDELMOB]

How is Alacritty able to update the colors in place like this, without restart? Are other terminal emulators able to do this?

[@lloritoovidexequield.8609]

Hey DT, can you review the latest release of Devuan (Chimaera) based on Debian 11? I'd like to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks.

[@marcin6386]

DT - next step would be to find a way to put variables in all these places where you have color scheme type. And write a script that will change the color scheme in all these programs in ONE command.

[@brynanuppasponken]

chriskempson/base16 lets you do this on the fly for the shell and vim. I have yet to try it for any other apps. At least in Alacritty the chosen color scheme loads immediately.

[@justanotherpxrson]

Hey DT, I have been finding your videos really interesting as I recently switched to linux. The more I learn, the more curious I get. But for some reason I am hesitating on trying to stop using a full desktop environment and switching to a window manager. Any advice on that subject?

[@watynecc3309]

Try i3 !

[@monika.alt197]

i3 or swaywm

[@watynecc3309]

@@monika.alt197 Xorg or Wayland is up to you xD

[@quasigod1083]

Now a bash script with some awk that makes all these changes for you in one command 👌👌

[@gingered]

Hey DT! You can totally set colors for dmenu without recompiling. # from my i3 config bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run -nb '#111111' -nf '#a2b49d' -fn 'source code pro-13' Makes for nice color coding your contexts, i.e from your shutdown script change it to: choice=$(printf '%s ' "${options[@]}" | dmenu -i -p 'Shutdown menu:' -sb '#FF0000') for a solid red selected background color.

[@JesseNeckred]

Don't delete config.h, that's where your config changed should go. Make sources config.h ahead of config.def.h and will only create a config.h file if it doesn't already exist. Make will NOT write over the config.h file if it already exists upon compilation, config.def.h is supposed to be the unmodified default file. The "def" stands for default.

[@voxelfusion9894]

Gnome foundation: frowns.

[@ishaanbhimwal]

I love linux and specially the fact that how unique its is from something like windows and macos but I am in grade 12 (India) and I really don't have any time to setup everything from scratch like in arch. Yes there are distros like ubuntu and manjaro but then my dependence on software like ms teams and office suite comes into play. Teams for linux is like 3-4 years older than the version of windows. But I do love linux a alot and I use ubuntu with i3 in a vm for my git and c stuff.

[@Alexander-vo4gv]

You get arch install scripts that install arch for you, then you can install i3 and you've already done half of it. This is coming from a teenager too

[@clocked0]

I started fiddling around with arch based distros and such when I was in grade 10, in grade 11 I made the switch.. The hardest part of setting up Arch the way you want it is 100% going to be partitioning. I'm very good at it now, but for you I'd definitely recommend putting Endeavor on a USB and using gparted instead of the command line utility that is shown on the arch wiki to make your partitions. It'll save you a headache, and you'll be off to the races with "pure" arch in no time. Arch installer scripts are nice too if you just want a working system to fiddle with at the start

[@ishaanbhimwal]

@@Alexander-vo4gv yeah I have tried the script in a vm a couple of times though if I ever switch it would be manjaro probably

[@dougtilaran3496]

I need Geany

[@dhavalchavda9808]

Heyy DT ! idk whether you ll see this or not but this is just a suggestion from regular user of your setup ...i saw this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWGsqZ2CetKio8k And i think it would be great to implement top borders for windows instead of full borders ... Your videos are great thank you for all your hard work 😊

[@harryedgeworth74]

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[@JesseNeckred]

This was a comment from another video I left: Ideology is ridiculous to worry about with software. I don't care what CEOs say, I care about the actual product. If you really want to get into the discussion of CEOs, maybe you should look into what the Brandon Eich's ideology (he is anti-gay marriage) is, or the ideology of any software dev or maintainer. But it doesn't fit your narrative. It's best to just tune that crap out from people like them. Far right extremism isn't better than far left extremism. IMO Brave, Chrome, Chromium, etc is all lacking in the final product. Hardened Firefox is arguably more secure than Brave could hope to be. How about Multi-Account Containers? Where is the css and javascript customization in Brave? Nothing is wrong with Brave or enjoying using it, but it's silly to forge a self identification with software, like people do for sports teams or music artists.