A handy python script to customize your polybar with pywal colors.

• linux (should work on BSD)
• python 3
• polybar
• pywal

• Clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/LuisHGH/wal-polybar.git or download only the script with wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LuisHGH/wal-polybar/master/wal-polybar.py

• Make a backup of your current polybar config file just to be safe (it is usually located at ~/.config/polybar/config )

• Copy your backup to a config.template file under the same directory (you can also use a custom directory, see: How to use wal-polybar)

• Paste the following to the colors section of your config.template (you can also define the colors from the wal cache manually, see Customization)

background = ${wal.color0}
background-alt = ${wal.color8}
foreground = ${wal.color7}
foreground-alt = ${wal.color7}
primary = ${wal.color1}
secondary = ${wal.color2}
alert = ${wal.color3}

• Now just run these commands below in a terminal (assuming you're in the same folder as wal-polybar.py'):

sudo ln -s "$(pwd)/wal-polybar.py"  /usr/bin/wal-polybar
wal-polybar

• Now just reload your polybar and it should be themed following your background colors!

Run wal-polybar to update your polybar with any edits made at config.template or to a new background image. Remember that wal-polybar uses the cache of wal, so you need to generate the new color scheme with wal before wal-polybar can acess it.

usage: wal-polybar [-h] [-v version] [-t 'path/to/template']

optional arguments:
    -h, --help          show this help message and exit
    -v                  displays the version of wal-polybar
    -t                  runs the script with a custom template path 
 

You can also add wal-polybar to your startup aplications file assuming you also have wal on it to always update your polybar theme on startup

You can manually acess the wal cache colors individually at specific points of your config.template file using the sintax:

${wal.colorx}

Where x is a number between 0 and 15 that corresponds to it's position at the wal cache file. It's generally located at ~/.cache/wal/colors. The number of the colors follow a pattern established by wal: they are the 16 most present colors on the image in a decreasing order.