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mitoXD — Arch Rusty Springfield Edition
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Published: 2018-04-09 11:35:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 74900; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 8
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Specs
- OS: Arch Linux
- Kernel: 4.15.15-1-ARCH (x86_64)
- WM/DE: XMonad 0.13 (cabalized), XMonad-Xfce-hybrid
- screen res: 1920 × 1080 px
- X terminal: urxvt (daemon mode)
- X terminal apps: python-pywal, neofetch, ncmpcpp, cmatrix, ponysay, fortune, powerline-rs
- additional stuff: xfce4-panel, dzen2, xmobar, ibus, conky-cli, nixieclock, own shell scripts, compton …
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What’s this all about …
Hiya – spring has lavishly arrived these days in Germany, spending plenty of sunshine and air temperatures up to 25 degrees Celsius! Looking forward to stay outdoors for healthy activities more often, especially since among other things I’m way busy with spring cleaning – everywhere and everything, feels like never ending … There’s even hardly a chance to continue with desktop optimization. However, there’s some progress with tweaking the terminal. Hence the deviation title derives from the sunny warmth, the Steampunk wall, and its coloring. Besides, “Rusty Springfield” could be the name of the shown funky MLP character (which I don’t know in particular, so help anyone?), remembering a famous singer .
All the other configs haven’t changed; they are the same as in the screenie before . Everything is still considered “alpha.” Here it’s all about the new terminal colors. Currently they don’t match any GUI preset; that would be another task. – Despite well known color sets such as Solarized , Monokai , or multiple ones particularly for stylizing Gtk themes like oomox , this one is arbitrarily generated just from the wallpaper! (In fact, I was thinking about writing a script for that purpose myself, i. e. dealing with quantization or indexed colors . Fortunately, that’s no longer necessary.)
The tool of the trade I lately stumbled upon is called wal by Dylan Araps – or rather pywal, its more advanced successor. It makes the terminal’s appearance pleasing the eye by stripping (eight) prominent wallpaper colors for further usage on the fly, initiated by stating$ wal -i /path/to/the/imageon the command line. See which nice color slots are presented by neofetch (as in shown the centered scratchpad), for example; the current ones resemble to different shades of rust indeed, if not of coffee and cream or even old time sepia photographs, right? The official wiki tells how to keep the generated colors on reboot and other useful things, so (py)wal doesn’t need to be called each time one spawns a terminal. Preserving transparency for urxvt is also no problem; it’s just an edit of .Xresources away. Besides, obviously (py)wal skips ponysay as it uses explicit hex values for coloring. Then the prompt may reveal colors not covered by the (py)wal palette.
A cool looking VTE is fun and makes me wanting to set up every left bells and whistles soon. So I’m not satisfied with powerline’s default prompt and Arch’s ASCII logo as seen here; I still like my own versions better. I also want to either tweak the XFCE menu button or get rid of it. Then comes the choice of the wallpaper(s) which will determine the color samples to be processed into every aspects of the DE, the bars etc., yet keeping legibility and workflow in mind. – And since the winter is definitely gone, I’ll also have to abandon my Bandabi icon from the tray now. Thanks Korea for being the host of such splendid but not too showy Olympic and Paralympic Games!
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Links and References
- the official urxvt manpage: [link]
- pywal home: [link] – in the AUR, [link]
- the powerline-shell in the AUR: [link]
- neofetch in the AUR: [link]
- home of ponysay: [link]
- the official ncmpcpp screenshots: [link] – dotshare collection, [link]
- collection of customized (X) terminal configs at dotshare: [link]
- list of Iosevka fonts (containing special graphical characters) in the AUR: [link]
- the XMonad wiki: [link]
- wallpaper by pizzabytheslice: [link]
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