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base16-sway
This repository is meant to work with chriskempson/base16. It provides a simple template that can be used with the base16 color schemes to generate a functional config file for swaywm/sway, a tiling and dynamic window manager.
Usage
I imply, that since you are reading this you have already a working sway
config. If not, please create
one.
Sway does not import settings from xresources yet like i3, but it can source a
file via include
command. We are going to use this feature here:
- Paste
include colorscheme
in your config.colorscheme
is a reference to file, which will contain your chosen theme. - Paste in your config:
# Basic color configuration using the Base16 variables for windows and borders.
# Property Name Border BG Text Indicator Child Border
client.focused $base05 $base0D $base00 $base0D $base0D
client.focused_inactive $base01 $base01 $base05 $base03 $base01
client.unfocused $base01 $base00 $base05 $base01 $base01
client.urgent $base08 $base08 $base00 $base08 $base08
client.placeholder $base00 $base00 $base05 $base00 $base00
client.background $base07
- If you use a statusbar, paste following block in the bar section in your config:
colors {
background $base00
separator $base01
statusline $base04
# State Border BG Text
focused_workspace $base05 $base0D $base00
active_workspace $base05 $base03 $base00
inactive_workspace $base03 $base01 $base05
urgent_workspace $base08 $base08 $base00
binding_mode $base00 $base0A $base00
}
include colorscheme
should be pasted above the configs from points 2 and 3.
An absolutely minimal example is shown in config file.
Now let's create a colorscheme
file containing a theme. Since the file is
referred to by name it should be placed in the same directory as your sway
config. Let's pick default dark theme as example and install it via curl in ~/.config/sway/
:
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rkubosz/base16-sway/master/themes/base16-default-dark.config > ~/.config/sway/colorscheme
and reload config with shift+mod+c.