❄️ nix-colors-adapters

Configure theme of all your apps with a single line

Collection of adapters for automatically applying nix-colors base16 schemes.

Firefox:

Dolphin (Kvantum):

Code for this example:

- colorScheme = inputs.nix-colors.colorSchemes.gruvbox-dark-hard;
+ colorScheme = inputs.nix-colors.colorSchemes.ayu-light;

Adapters

Adapter	Accent	Notes
Adwaita (GTK3, GTK4)	🟢	sets GTK3 theme to adw-gtk3
Alacritty	🔴
dunst	🟠
✨Firefox✨	🟢	depends on Adwaita
GTK2	🟠
Kvantum	🟠	Kvantum is problematic, consider disabling it if you encounter broken apps
Rofi	🔴
swaylock	🟠
Wezterm	🔴

(🟢 supported, 🟠 possible, 🔴 impossible)

Install (system flake + system home-manager)

1. configure home-manager, make sure to pass inputs to your home module (vimjoyer tutorial)
2. add nix-colors and nix-colors-adapters to you inputs in flake.nix:

inputs = {
    ...
    nix-colors.url = "github:misterio77/nix-colors";
    nix-colors-adapters.url = "gitlab:vfosnar/nix-colors-adapters";
    ...
};

3. import them in your home module home.nix:

imports = [
    ...
    inputs.nix-colors.homeManagerModules.default
    inputs.nix-colors-adapters.homeManagerModules.default
    ...
];

4. you're done!

Configuration (home.nix)

You can configure any base16 theme using nix-colors.

To configure nix-colors with Gruvbox Dark Hard:

colorScheme = inputs.nix-colors.colorSchemes.gruvbox-dark-hard;

Enable/disable adapter

All adapters are enabled by default. To disable an adapter set nixColorsAdapters.<adapter>.enable = false;. For example to disable the kvantum adapter so you can manage its theme manually:

nixColorsAdapters = {
    kvantum.enable = false;
};

Configure Firefox

For Firefox to work you need to specify a list of profile names. The configuration will only apply to these profiles. To properly apply colors the System theme — auto theme must be manually set in Firefox settings.

nixColorsAdapters = {
    firefox.profiles = [ "alice", "bob" ];
};

Configure Wezterm

Themes for Wezterm cannot be applied automatically so you have to run the following in your wezterm.lua:

config.colors = wezterm.color.load_base16_scheme("${config.nixColorsAdapters.wezterm.base16-file}");
return config;

or if configuring Wezterm outside of home manager

local wezterm = require 'wezterm';
config.colors = wezterm.color.load_base16_scheme(" ~/.config/wezterm/nix-colors-adapters-base16.yaml");
return config;

Accent color

The accent color for selected theme is automatically selected for known themes (source). If you want to override the color and provide your own just set nixColorsAdapters.accent. Example:

nixColorsAdapters = {
    accent = "ff0000";
    # or
    accent = config.colorScheme.colors.base08;
};

Sources

• Catppuccin
• mozilla
• tinted-theming
• vimjoyer