May 27, 2020

I was able to install ‘pywal’ with pip3, which basically allows you to change terminal color schemes on the fly.

Here is the link to ‘pywal’ on GitHub: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal

However, it wasn’t necessarily changing my wallpaper as well, so I created a function within my .bashrc config file to change both the color scheme via the ‘wal’ command AND the wallpaper via ’nitrogen’ command:

This can be found in the “# ‘pywal’ based adjustment” section of my .bashrc: https://github.com/SBanya/dotfiles/tree/master/bash

The result is a bit of a workaround. However, it was pretty neat since it taught me how to obtain the default user input with the “$1” argument.

I’m thinking of ways to maybe incorporate this same idea to possibly give me a color scheme for my “AwesomeWM” (Awesome Window Manager) as well.

Also, I want to learn how to use AwesomeWM with gaps as well.

If I can’t get that to work, I might even jump ship and try a completely different window manager.

On another note, the dang Arch drive is having issues powering off again since it just shows a blinking “_” cursor upon logging off from AwesomeWM on the desktop machine.

This most likely is an issue with the video card driver, or the lack of updates.

If I can’t really fix it… well, I might just give up and try Slackware instead on the remaining partition, and just re-do the Arch install with Gentoo later on since its been just a dumb uphill battle to get Arch to boot. Using Arch so far on that machine has been a battle of “Will this system actually boot without errors today?”.

Maybe I should just use something Debian based but with access to Arch repositories. Who knows.

I’m still glad to have figured out ‘pywal’ though, cause its so neat.