Doesn't work on Dmenu

[hyperboly]

I tried to add in the #include /path/to/wal line in dmenu, but it doesn't work. If I try to delete the color definitions in my config.h in my dwm directory, it errors. This might be a patch issue. Is there a patch thats known for overriding pywal for dmenu? Pywal works for me on st and dwm. Thanks.

[Damaj301damaj-lol]

You need to patch Xresources support for dmenu, dwm, st to enable use of pywal on them

[speedie1337]

@Damaj301damaj-lol untrue, however the patches make it more seamless (specifically the xresources-alt patch).

[Damaj301damaj-lol]

@speediegq it didn't work for me until i patched it ?

[speedie1337]

@Damaj301damaj-lol That's because you need to #include the generated colors and remove the existing colors. Like I said, the xresources-alt patch is an alternative, and that's usually what i prefer.

[iwasemman]

You can check if your theme is working by running dmenu_run the terminal. If your theme is working you need to bind your mod + p to dmenu_run (without some fancy dmenu command) in your config.h.

In your config.h, look for this line where the dmenucmd is defined: static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-m", dmenumon, "-fn", dmenufont, "-nb", col_gray1, "-nf", col_gray3, "-sb", col_cyan, "-sf", col_gray4, NULL };

Then just remove the colors such as col_gray1 until you are left like this: static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", NULL };

You may also want to delete/comment out these lines: static const char col_gray1[] = "#222222"; static const char col_gray2[] = "#444444"; static const char col_gray3[] = "#bbbbbb"; static const char col_gray4[] = "#eeeeee"; static const char col_cyan[] = "#005577";

[speedie1337]

Do not delete the colors, as they're used in the colors array.

I recommend applying the xresources patch to dmenu and adding the color0-color15 stuff to the Xresources array.