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Hello BudRich,

I would like to thank you for all your work around i3-wm tiling and ricing, it really makes it seem easier to do and save from hours of research and testing.

I decided today to use your mondo tool to manage themes in my i3-wm.
I started following your videos tutorials and created a theme as you suggested without parsing any file to it just a simple command:

mondo -n mytheme

If this would have worked like you stated in your video I would have some mondo resources defined in it right? Like that:

#define fg #bdae93
#define bg #252323

#define base00 #252323
#define base01 #8f3f71
#define base02 #427b58
#define base03 #32302F

#define base0 #b57614
#define base1 #bdae93
#define base2 #ebdbb2
#define base3 #f9f5d7

#define red #cc241d
#define ora #9d0006
#define grn #98971a
#define ylw #d79921
#define blu #458588
#define mag #b16286
#define vio #076678
#define cyn #689d6a

mondo.colors.fg1: fg
mondo.colors.fg2: base2
mondo.colors.bg1: bg
mondo.colors.bg2: base03

mondo.colors.dark1: base00
mondo.colors.light1: base3

mondo.colors.act1: blu
mondo.colors.act2: base3
mondo.colors.act3: base00

mondo.colors.ina1: base03
mondo.colors.ina2: fg
mondo.colors.ina3: base2

mondo.colors.sel1: base00
mondo.colors.sel2: base3

!! GUI theme
#define cursortheme Adwaita
#define icontheme ePapirus
#define gtktheme buddybud

!! Terminal fonts
#define terminalfontface1 monospace
#define terminalfontsize1 12
#define terminalfontface2 monospace
#define terminalfontsize2 18

!! GUI fonts
#define guifontface1 monospace
#define guifontsize1 12
#define guifontface2 sans
#define guifontsize2 18

Because it takes kind of inspiration from Xresources by default (also nitce my .Xresources file looks exactly like yours in your tutorials, importing colors and urxvt file).

So my theme file looks like this:

!! Theme: mytheme
!! Author: dreamer
!! Created: 2018-08-30

bg #222222
bg2 #333333

fg #DDDDDD
comment #AAAAAA

red #FF0000
green #00FF00
blue #0000FF
yellow #FFFF00
cyan #00FFFF
magenta #FF00FF

dark #000000
light #FFFFFF

activebg cyan
activefg light
activehl dark

inactivebg blue
inactivefg fg

selectedbg magenta
selectedfg light

It produces something similar to this even if I parse an Xresources type file from the unixporn contest you linked up in your video. But by reading the README of the latest mondo version I found out that the synopsis for creating a new theme has changed like you can't parse a file anymore? Just a name?

I watched your videos multiple times to find where I could have done something wrong but I don't find my error maybe something changed in newer mondo versions? I also output my xrdb resources and everything is fine on this part. I'm really stuck and dont know how to solve this...

Thank you for reading,
Hope you can give me a hand,
Thanks :)

I'm not sure if this is intended or not but it took me a stupidly long while to figure out what was wrong because I wasn't looking for it lol. Anyways, dashes '-' and underscores '_' set empty values when generated. I'm sure there is more but thought I'd just throw this out there.

Linux jason 5.3.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:45:16 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

mondo -v
mondo - version: 2019.02.20.5
updated: 2019-02-20 by budRich

i3 version 4.17.1 (2019-08-30) 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors

I'm trying to create a theme but it returns a null value

watch this video https://streamable.com/pnaaw

Originally posted by @Bl0nd in #6

every time I update a config file (say polybar's), I also have to update polybar's _mondo-template, otherwise when the former gets overwritten when I apply a theme, it'll be outdated by an edit. This updating gets a little tedious, especially when you got 4 or 5 other generators.

I thought it'd be a good idea to maybe have __mondo-template contain only lines from the original config that require substitution, so like for polybar:

~/.config/mondo/generators/polybar/_mondo-template

background = %%activebg%%
background-alt = %%inactivebg%%
foreground = %%activefg%%
foreground-alt = %%inactivefg%%
primary = %%blue%%
secondary = %%yellow%%
alert = %%red%%
That way, whenever we update the original polybar config, we don't need to update the polybar _mondo-template. And to apply the theme, we'd just need to update the original config with the generated theme files instead of overwriting the entire original config. The only problem is I don't know how to do that just yet. I think diff could help but the real problem is how to replace the appropriate lines in the original config file.

I saw that your mondo-contrib repo was structured like this so I have no idea if this is already a feature? If it is, it hasn't worked for me so far (though maybe I'm just being dumb and messing up) so thought I'd just bring it up.

This only occurs when the last line in your theme file is a variable (from what I noticed). I noticed this when I hadn't added in

! syntax:ssExcla

at the end of my file. For example, this was my theme file:

!! Theme:    wheat
!! Author:   cush
!! Created:  2019-02-27
...
...
...
accent          blu
altAccent       blu3
bg              blk2
altBg           grey
fg              wht2
altFg           blu2
alt2Fg          wht3
cursor          wht3
altCursor       blu

primaryFont     monospace

And when I looked in my i3 config, this was happening

font pango:monospacegtktheme 12

gtktheme was the first line in my default theme file. So I then just deleted everything in that file and then I got:

font pango:monospace!! Theme: wheat 12

I then tried adding a fake variable at the end of my file and this issue went away. I can't reproduct the issue once I fixed it though. So not sure but figured I'd let you know.

Hello.

Am I correct that it is not allowed to have values with whitespaces in my theme file?

For example:

MONDO_DIR\themes\mytheme:
myvar "hello world"

if I do mondo -l vars mytheme it only parses the "hello part of the value. Can this be fixed?

Hello BudRich,

Sorry to disturb you, I decided to use the old version of mondo you used in your videos because it's easier to at the moment and when I ran the script mondo I got this error:
mondo: line 291: syntax error near unexpected token ('
mondo: line 291: cat "$src" "$MONDO_DIR/mondo-init" <(genxcolors "$src") \'

Do you know how I can solve it or if you can?

Thanks :)

After a clean install, my $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset so the $MONDO_DIR variable gets set to /mondo which obviously messes things up a bit.

Apparently $XDG_CONFIG_HOME isn't set automatically? I thought it was... Maybe I did something wrong...

Anyways, maybe a check should be put in like XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}".