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From: "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>
To: "Emanuel Berg" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Advice for changing-theme-function for GNU/Linux system
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:47:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b420374-e32d-4585-981b-a7387a1fc0bc@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7xnd545.fsf@jonas-damm.de>

One thing I can think of is to base it upon the '~/.Xresources' file itself:
 * https://github.com/martenlienen/xresources-theme

Or just use 'pywal':
 * https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal

Sincerely,

Sam

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, at 1:15 PM, Jonas Damm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wish to create my own function in emacs to switch my whole system from
> dark to light mode.
> 
> I want to use the modus themes included in emacs, so i can toggle with
> modus-themes-toggle.
> 
> However, I also want to change my systems GTK theme for other
> applications like Evince. So i have to change the file
> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and replace "Adwaita" with "Adwaita-dark"
> or the other way round. How would this be done? Do I need to call a
> shell command with "sed", or can emacs to this natively by opening that
> file, finding and replacing the String?
> 
> Thanks for any Ideas,
> Jonas
> 
> 


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-18 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-17 17:15 Advice for changing-theme-function for GNU/Linux system Jonas Damm
2022-07-17 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-18  9:05   ` Jonas Damm
2022-07-18  9:28     ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-18 10:36       ` Jonas Damm
2022-07-18 22:47 ` Samuel Banya [this message]

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