Hi there, started to manage my terminal colors and gtk theme with pywal and went to qutebrowser theming at some point. Here the summary of what i found. You don’t need to use pywal yourself, it just updates .Xresources and some other templates for me.
Here the examples of how you can color it:
Got some interest? Here we go. Few simple steps:
- Add loading colors from
.Xresourcesto very beginning of yourconfig.pyofqutebrowser
import subprocess
def read_xresources(prefix):
props = {}
x = subprocess.run(['xrdb', '-query'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
lines = x.stdout.decode().split('\n')
for line in filter(lambda l : l.startswith(prefix), lines):
prop, _, value = line.partition(':\t')
props[prop] = value
return props
xresources = read_xresources('*')
# can be userd now like `c.colors.statusbar.normal.bg = xresources['*.background']`
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Now you can customize your config with new colors from
.Xresourcesor use part of my config, which available here. -
You can reload running instance of
qutebrowserwith simplepythonscript, check it here.
Don’t hesitate to play with the coloring qute UI in config.
