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DelusionalLogic / bard

System for managing lemonboy bar
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Color in simple formatting #6

Closed SevereOverfl0w closed 8 years ago

SevereOverfl0w commented 8 years ago

I couldn't figure out how to do colour in simple formatting, I tried your configs, but couldn't get them working. I think I might not have xrdb/Xresources setup correctly. Can you point me in the right direction?

[unit]
name=Clock
type=poll

[display]
command=date "+%a %b %d, %T"
format="%{F$color[red]} $1%{F-}"
interval=1

Results in:

%{F} Wed Sep 28, 12:49:39%{r}

How do I get it to pull out a colour correctly from the array?

DelusionalLogic commented 8 years ago

Looking at the dotfiles you have in your .files repo it does indeed look like you haven't defined the Xresources colors.

Personally I use colors from the base16 colorscheme, but I did at some point use the colors here: https://github.com/DelusionalLogic/dotfiles/blob/bspwm/Xorg/.config/xcolors/bold

To use them you just append the file to your existing .Xresources file.

Personally i like to keep it separated from my other xrdb definitions, so I have a separate folder and include them into the original .Xresources via #include "<file>"

SevereOverfl0w commented 8 years ago

I realised that I forgot to run xrdb -merge after updating my .Xresources locally. Oops!

Thanks for taking the time to reply.