Sway Color Daemon

Color daemon for sway that automatically change light and dark themes based on the time of day

What is currently supported?

You change choose between settings a rigid timer (change occurs at 7Am & 7PM) or a solar timer (change occurs at sunrise and sunset)

Currently the following applications will switch between light and dark colorschemes automatically:

• Arbitrary files
  • Only works for files:
    • Only one lines needs to be changed
    • If that line will only be on of the two options you give it
  • Can optionally pass a command to update
• Alacritty
• Bat
• GTK (on sway)
  • GTK Theme
  • Icon Theme
  • Cursor Theme
  • Font Name
• Lighting
  • Monitor
  • Keyboard
• Mako
• Neovim(v0.5+) with Dusk-til-Dawn.nvim
• Spotify with spicetify
• Vscode

Sway Color Daemon also creates /tmp/sway-colord/dawn & /tmp/sway-colord/dusk files that can be read to find out when the next timechange is from a shell script

Install

Alpine Linux

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.apk -o sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.apk
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.apk

Arch Linux

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst -o sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Debian/Ubuntu

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord_0.1.2_amd64.deb -o sway-colord_0.1.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i sway-colord_0.1.2_amd64.deb

Gentoo

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.ebuild -o sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.ebuild 
ebuild sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.ebuild compile
ebuild sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.ebuild install

RHEL

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.rpm -o sway-colord-0.1.2-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm –i sway-colord.rpm

Other Linux x86-64bit distro

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-linux-amd64 -o sway-colord
sudo mv sway-colord /usr/bin/

Linux ARM

curl -Lj https://github.com/Th3Whit3Wolf/sway-colord/releases/download/v0.1.2/sway-colord-0.1.2-linux-amd64 -o sway-colord
sudo mv sway-colord /usr/bin/

Goals

Theme Switching

• Atom
• Kitty

UI

• tui
• gui

Instructions

Create file ~/.config/sway-colord/config.ron

(
  timechange: Solar(52.4045, 0.5613),
  ArbitraryList(
          arbitraries: [
              Arbitrary(
                  config_file: "~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf",
                  dark_line: "source-file ~/.config/tmux/colors/spacedark-theme.tmux",
                  light_line: "source-file                    ~/.config/tmux/colors/spacelight-theme.tmux",
                  post_hook: Some("tmux source-file ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf")
              )
          ]
      )
  ),
  alacritty: Some(
    Alacritty(
      dark_theme: Some("dark"),
      light_theme: Some("light")
    )
  ),
  bat: Some(
    Bat(
      dark_theme: Some("OneHalfDark"),
      light_theme: Some("OneHalfLight")
    )
  ),
  gsettings: Some(
    GSettings(
      dark_gtk_theme: Some("Space-Dark"),
      dark_icon_theme: Some("Space-Dark"),
      dark_cursor_theme: None,
      dark_font_name: None,
      light_gtk_theme: Some("Space-Light"),
      light_icon_theme: Some("Space-Light"),
      light_cursor_theme: None,
      light_font_name: None,
    )
  ),
  lighting: Some(
    Lighting(
      monitor: Some(
        Monitor(
          device: "amdgpu_bl0",
          dark_perc: 20,
          light_perc: 50
        )
      ),
      keyboard: Some(
        Keyboard(
          device: "asus::kbd_backlight",
          dark_perc: 34,
          light_perc: 0
        )
      )
    )
  ),
  mako: Some(
    Mako(
        dark_theme: Some("Dark"),
        light_theme: Some("Light")
    )
  ),
  vscode: Some(
    VSCode(
        dark_theme: Some("Spacemacs - dark"),
        light_theme: Some("Spacemacs - light")
    )
  )
)

How to get waybar theme to change automatically?

Waybar will change automatically with the gtk theme if you make waybar follow the gtk theme.

How to get my other utilities to switch themes with sway-colord?

You can make an executable script for any utility that accepts a theme or config as a parameter. Place it in ~/.local/bin and make sure ~/.local/bin is in your $PATH. Here is an example for wofi.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# place this in ~/.local/bin/wofi
dawn=$(cat /tmp/sway-colord/dawn)
dusk=$(cat /tmp/sway-colord/dusk)
now=$(date +%H:%M:%S)

if [[ "$now" < "$dawn" ]] || [[ "$now" > "$dusk" ]]; then
    # Dark Theme
    /usr/bin/wofi -s ~/.config/wofi/dark.css
else
    # Light Theme
    /usr/bin/wofi -s ~/.config/wofi/light.css
fi