Alacritty Colorscheme

Change colorscheme of alacritty with ease.

Installation

You can install alacritty-colorscheme using pip:

pip install --user alacritty-colorscheme

Usage

usage: alacritty-colorscheme [-c configuration file] [-C colorscheme directory] [-V] [-h]
                             {list,status,toggle,apply} ...

Getting colorschemes

• You can get colorschemes from aaron-williamson/base16-alacritty

  REPO="https://github.com/aaron-williamson/base16-alacritty.git"
  DEST="$HOME/.aarors-williamson-colorschemes"
  
  # Get colorschemes 
  git clone $REPO $DEST
  # Create symlink at default colors location (optional)
  ln -s "$DEST/colors" "$HOME/.config/alacritty/colors"
  

• You can also get colorschemes from from eendroroy/alacritty-theme

  REPO=https://github.com/eendroroy/alacritty-theme.git
  DEST="$HOME/.eendroroy-colorschemes"
  # Get colorschemes
  git clone $REPO $DEST
  # Create symlink at default colors location (optional)
  ln -s "$DEST/themes" "$HOME/.config/alacritty/colors"
  

Sync with vim/neo-vim

If you are using base16 colorschemes from base16-vim plugin, you can use the -V argument to automatically generate ~/.vimrc_background file when you change alacritty colorscheme. You will need to source this file in your vimrc to load the same colorscheme in vim.

Add this in your .vimrc file:

if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc_background"))
  let base16colorspace=256          " Remove this line if not necessary
  source ~/.vimrc_background
endif

When you change your alacritty colorscheme, you simply need to source ~/.vimrc_background or your vimrc. If you are a neo-vim user, ~/.vimrc_background will be automatically sourced.

Examples

bash/zsh aliases

Add this in your .zshrc or .bashrc file:

LIGHT_COLOR='base16-gruvbox-light-soft.yml'
DARK_COLOR='base16-gruvbox-dark-soft.yml'

alias day="alacritty-colorscheme -V apply $LIGHT_COLOR"
alias night="alacritty-colorscheme -V apply $DARK_COLOR"
alias toggle="alacritty-colorscheme -V toggle $LIGHT_COLOR $DARK_COLOR"

i3wm/sway bindings

Add this in your i3 config file:

set $light_color base16-gruvbox-light-soft.yml
set $dark_color base16-gruvbox-dark-soft.yml

# Toggle between light and dark colorschemes
bindsym $mod+Shift+n exec alacritty-colorscheme -V toggle $light_color $dark_color

# Toggle between all available colorschemes
bindsym $mod+Shift+m exec alacritty-colorscheme -V toggle

# Get notification with current colorscheme
bindsym $mod+Shift+b exec notify-send "Alacritty Colorscheme" `alacritty-colorscheme status`

Development

Running locally

pip install --user poetry

git clone https://github.com/toggle-corp/alacritty-colorscheme.git
cd alacritty-colorscheme

poetry install
poetry run python -m alacritty_colorscheme.cli

Installing locally

pip install --user .

License

Content of this repository is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].

Apache License, Version 2.0