Use colors from Xresources

[lrargerich]

Hi,

Simple question: Is there a way to take the colors from Xresources? This would make theming yabar an easy task.

Thanks!

[vinnyA3]

Currently, I don't believe there is a native way to interact with Xresources. As a workaround, you can always write a script that replaces some fields in your yabar config with colors from Xresources. I'm doing something similiar with dynamic pywal colors.

[lrargerich]

If you can share what you are doing it will probably help me.

[vinnyA3]

Sure thing. Here is a piece of my script:

#!/bin/bash

ya=/usr/bin/yabar
ya_conf_dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/config/yabar

# If we don't have a yabar config file in tmp, create both
# yabar.confg and yabar-sp.config
if [ ! -f /tmp/yabar.conf ];
then
    # source pywal color scheme
    source $HOME/.cache/wal/colors.sh

    colors=( $(echo $background $color12 | sed -e 's/#//g') )

    # create tmp ya config
    cp $ya_conf_dir/yabar.conf /tmp/yabar.conf

    # create tmp ya-sp config
    awk '/ya_workspace:/ && c == 0 {
        c = 1;
        system("cat ~/.dotfiles/config/yabar/ya_song_block");
    }; {print} ' $ya_conf_dir/yabar.conf > /tmp/yabar-sp.conf

    # insert 'ya_song' into loaded blocks (yabar-sp.conf)
    sed -ie "/\"ya_workspace\"/a \"ya_song\"," /tmp/yabar-sp.conf

    # replace all occurrences of primary/secondary color keys
    # with sourced pywal colors
    sed -ie "s/PRICOLOR/${colors[0]}/g;s/SECCOLOR/${colors[1]}/g" /tmp/yabar* 
fi

In my script, I'm creating a yabar-sp file because I'm utilizing yabar's internal song block. I noticed that if the media player (in my case spotify) isn't running, then the internal block eats at the cpu since it's trying to display song information. Hope this helps. You can check out the rest of the script(s) in my dotfiles repo.

[lrargerich]

Thanks! I ended up using your ideas and creating a script that automatically changes the wallpaper, runs pywal and re-starts yabar with the new colors. I also created a small icon in yabar to execute this so I can just click in the little icon and change the whole theme, yabar, i3, wallpaper, terms, etc...

Curious question why did you choose color 12 from pywal as your foreground? If that is the foreground...

[vinnyA3]

Glad it helped! That's a really good idea. I'm going to do the same thing.

Curious question why did you choose color 12 from pywal as your foreground? If that is the foreground...

I'm not sure haha 😄 . I think I was testing something at time time and never changed it back to $foreground. I guess it makes no difference here ( except for making sense of it ).

[lausek]

@lrargerich @vinnyA3 Sorry, if I misunderstand the topic here but isn't XrmGetFileDatabase what we are looking for?