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I wanted to a script to take my current xcolor bg and apply to my wm border colors without having to go in and manually update.

This script was written specifically for 2bwm since that is my main wm, but I'm posting, one, for the idea and possible motivation,and two, b/c I thought it could easily be used for other wms with just a little adjusting.

I have the all 6 border color options placed into an array from which I use sed to replace an element in the array with a specific xcolor value. Whenever you change your xcolor you can run this and your wm (2bwm) borders will keep with you chosen color scheme!

In action
https://u.teknik.io/P7sHYg.webm

Interested? Find it here

Don't you guys love the useless scripts I write. I updated the OP with a little xdotool magic to reload the config. One stop shop. I got my own little theming utils going on here; scrotup, bitly, schemr (haven't fixed that fucker yet though), wm color, bar conf.

I added this line to the end automatically reloads the config

I'd love it if I used it :D I'll test bspwm 2bwm again some day, just can't get my fat ass up :/

Alright, here we go. I have updated the original post. It still only works with 2bwm, but much improved. I updated both the code and verbiage. Check it out! Of course, I think I'm the only 2bwm user here

* puts on JohnRaff hat
Hrm yeas but you could probably do all of that catting and grepping in one awk statement
* takes off hat.

Nice script, I hate using awk to do everything in one line, starts getting silly.

Ha. I could also get a 40oz, but a six pack is more fun! .... No doubt there are better ways. The problem is, I don't know those ways. Necessity is motivation. Now I can rice with the swiftness. Run a couple scripts and wuala.

But I will tell you that it does work! I can also say that it was a use case that has been on my list for some time. Now it is not. I'm happy.

fuck yeah, you've seen my scripts...

webm of it in action
https://u.teknik.io/P7sHYg.webm

Cool dkeg I need to find a way to make use :)

right on, thanks chef

The OP has been updated. Nothing major changed, it is just cleaner code. The original sed work was rough, but it worked.

The update has taken the sed work and placed into one sed statement; cleaning the redundancy.

Found a flaw. I've fixed it and updated the OP. I am now just linking to my GH to keep in simpler.