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dark-notify
It's a program for watching when macOS switches to dark mode. Useful for making your text editor switch to a dark theme. Includes a Neovim (Lua) plugin to do exactly that.
Install
brew install cormacrelf/tap/dark-notify
Neovim usage
Requires neovim 0.4.4 or later.
Add a plugin with your favourite plugin manager:
Plug 'cormacrelf/dark-notify'
Then add to your init.vim
:
:lua <<EOF
require('dark_notify').run()
EOF
By default, this will just execute :set bg=dark
or :set bg=light
as soon as
the system appearance changes.
Additional options
local dn = require('dark_notify')
-- Configure
dn.run({
schemes = {
-- you can use a different colorscheme for each
dark = "dark colorscheme name",
-- even a different `set background=light/dark` setting or lightline theme
-- if you use lightline, you may want to configure lightline themes,
-- even if they're the same one, especially if the theme reacts to :set bg
light = {
colorscheme = "light scheme name",
background = "override to either light or dark",
lightline = "set your lightline theme name here"
}
},
lightline_loaders = {
-- It's tricky to get lightline to update a colorscheme for `set bg=dark`.
-- Add a line here to reload the config for your lightline theme.
my_ll_theme_name = "path to a lightline autoload file",
-- example
github = (vim.g.plug_home .. "/vim-colors-github/autoload/lightline/colorscheme/github.vim")
},
onchange = function(mode)
-- optional, you can configure your own things to react to changes.
-- this is called at startup and every time dark mode is switched,
-- either via the OS, or because you manually set/toggled the mode.
-- mode is either "light" or "dark"
end,
})
-- Draw the blinds for now
dn.set_mode("dark")
-- Swap to whatever it isn't currently
dn.toggle()
-- Match the system
dn.update()
-- Stop reacting to changes
dn.stop()
-- Start reacting again, with previous settings
dn.run()
You can put those in mappings if you want.
nmap <f5> :lua require('dark_notify').toggle()<cr>
What if I just want the toggle functionality / am not on macOS?
Use the configure function instead.
:lua <<EOF
require('dark_notify').configure({
-- same options as run({ ... })
})
EOF
Command line usage
$ dark-notify
light
# then System Preferences > General, switch back and forth
dark
light
dark
# ... ctrl-C to quit.
You can also run another command whenever it changes:
$ dark-notify -c 'echo something'
something light
something dark
$ dark-notify -c 'python3 my-script.py'
dark-notify -h
for more options.