KADAI

Simple wallpaper manager for tiling window managers.

This project is heavily inspired by pywal with the main color generator being based off of it. KADAI is a project aimed at making theme alignment easier for the entire desktop experience, and is aimed towards users of tiling window managers (mainly i3wm). The main philosophy behind KADAI is to not edit any predefined configuration files, but instead works as an extra layer to your customised layout.

Usage

To get the usage for the command, use $ kadai --help. You can also the find the usage directly below.

usage: kadai [-h] [-v] [-q] [-g] [-i "path/to/dir"] 
			 [-p] [--override][--clear]

Generate and switch wallpaper themes

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -q                Allow only error logging
  -g                generate themes
  -i "path/to/dir"  the input file
  -p                Use last set theme
  --override        Override exisiting themes
  --clear           Clear all data relating to KADAI
  --backend         Switches to a different backend (hue/vibrance/k_means)
  --progress        Shows the progress of the command
  --warrenty        Shows the programs warrenty
  --light           Switch to using a light theme varient

Important Note

kadai does not work out of the box, as it relies on templates and hooks to be functional. This is covered in depth here.

Basic commands

The Update Command

This is the command that you would most likely be using the most. This command should be used to update the theme. The command is as follows.

$ kadai -i /path/to/file/or/directory

There are two ways this command can be used. The first instance is to directly apply the theme to a specified wallpaper. This would look like

$ kadai -i ~/Wallpapers/a-cool-wallpaper.png

The other way this command could be applied is to have it pick a random wallpaper from a directory. This would look like

$ kadai -i ~/Wallpapers/

The Generate Command

The update command generates the colorschemes automatically for the wallpaper parsed. However, if you wanted to save an extra few seconds every time the wallpaper is updated, it might be necessary to pre-generate the themes beforehand. The command to do this is as follows

$ kadai -gi /path/to/file/or/directory

The most often use-case scenario would be to pre-generate a folder of Wallpapers that will be randomly picked by the update command. This would look like

$ kadai -gi ~/Wallpapers/

The Preserve Command

If you are a user that likes to have a consistant wallpaper, then having the same wallpaper load up is a must. Using the preserve command allows for you to load up the last used wallpaper. The command is as follows

$ kadai -p

If you've never loaded a wallpaper with kadai before, this command will fail as it relies on applying the last used wallpaper.

Backends

There are multiple different backends currently supported which change the way the colors are generated.

Engine	Description
hue	For hue based generation. The generator picks the most dominant color and generates the other colors based off of that to compliment it. This stops the unknown color problem where you don't know which color is which in X
vibrance	Generates colors by choosing the top 16 most dominant colors and sorting them into the top 7 most vibrant colors
k_means	An experimental backend that uses k-means to find the most dominant colors, the output is very similar to vibrance backend

Installation

Dependencies

• Linux
• A X11 compatible terminal emulator
• Python 3+

Notes

All tests have been performed on Ubuntu and Arch, so there is no guarentee that it will work on any other distribution.

Installation

From PyPI (The Python Package Index)

This gets updated with every release I push, which is usually when I find the script to be stable enough to work without issues.

For a system wide install (requires superuser permissions), issue the command

# pip install kadai

For a user only install, issue the command

$ pip install --user kadai

This method requires $HOME/.local/bin/ to be registered in the PATH environmental variable. This can be achieved by adding export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin/ into your .bashrc or .profile.

From source (github repo)

Installing from source is not recommended, as it may contain bugs or problems that I haven't fixed. If you still want to go ahead issue the following commands

$ git clone https://github.com/slapelachie/kadai.git
$ cd kadai

If you want to install it system wide (requires superuser permissions), run

# pip install .

If you want to install it for the user, run

$ pip install --user .

Running Tests

If you find the need to run tests, execute the following commands

$ git clone https://github.com/slapelachie/kadai.git
$ cd kadai
$ python setup.py develop
$ pip install --user pytest
$ pytest

TODO

• Allow printing colors to stout

Links

[Required Files] [Required Files - Applications]