how to make pywal/wallust colorscheme to work with rmpc

[NischalDawadi]

Same as title

[mierak]

What have you tried and what is not working? Hard to help like this. I do not use pywal and do not know wallust, but for pywal you can use their templating function which should simply work as long as it generates a valid theme. Rmpc supports hex colors, which should be all you need for it to work.

[NischalDawadi]

in ncmpcpp i used to do this ~include '~/.config/wallust/templates/colors-kitty.conf' in rmpc i cannot do this. Also, unrelated but just like ncmpcpp is there any way I use send notification with album art on song change.

[mierak]

So I installed wallust and got it to work, heres the steps:

1. Copy contents of the default theme (including the three directives at the top!) to ~/.config/wallust/templates/rmpc.ron
2. Change the values inside the theme to your liking, for example you can do

   #![enable(implicit_some)]
   #![enable(unwrap_newtypes)]
   #![enable(unwrap_variant_newtypes)]
   (
   background_color: Some("{{background}}"),
   text_color: Some("{{foreground}}"),
   ...

3. Define a template section in your wallust config like so

   [templates]
   rmpc = { template = 'templates/rmpc.ron', target = '~/.config/rmpc/themes/wallust.ron', new_engine = true }

4. Set your theme in ~/.config/rmpc/config.ron

   #![enable(implicit_some)]
   #![enable(unwrap_newtypes)]
   #![enable(unwrap_variant_newtypes)]
   (
   address: "/tmp/mpd_socket",
   theme: Some("wallust"), // here!

5. run wallust and restart rmpc

[mierak]

And no, there is currently no way to send notification on song change. Ncmpcpp does this by allowing you to execute a custom script on song change right? Sounds like a nice enhancement to me, I will make that happen.

[NischalDawadi]

Thank you so much. It works perfectly now. Now after you implement the custom script, i think i am going to ditch ncmpcpp for this.

[mierak]

Just a heads up, I have merged https://github.com/mierak/rmpc/pull/46 which contains on_song_change property. I have also documented an example of desktop notification with album art, provided your notification daemon supports notify-send's icons. You can check it out here in the docs provided you build rmpc from master.

[NischalDawadi]

Amazing work. This project deserves more stars.