[SOLVED] How to Change Bar Colors

[Dr_Chroot]

Out of curiosity, how do you get bar to match the .Xresources colors? I thought that perhaps the palette.pl in the bar repo would do what I am looking for, but it only returns an error.

Edit: So I just thought of something, and ran

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./palette.pl ~/.muhxcolours

and it printed out

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#define BACKGROUND 0x25262b
#define FOREGROUND 0x1a9eba
#define COLOR0 0x024f50
#define COLOR1 0x03b9c7
#define COLOR2 0x039ea3
#define COLOR3 0x046a6b
#define COLOR4 0x05312e
#define COLOR5 0x0fdbe6
#define COLOR6 0x120e06
#define COLOR7 0x14251b
#define COLOR8 0x281905
#define COLOR9 0x332309

Now to find where to put them... bar.c?

[machinebacon]

Just guessing, it should be in bar.c, where you see "here be dragons".

[Dr_Chroot]

Hmm... good guess, but that doesn't seem to work, either.

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#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <poll.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <xcb/xcb.h>
#include <xcb/xinerama.h>
#include <xcb/randr.h>

// Here be dragons                                                                               

#define BACKGROUND 0x25262b
#define FOREGROUND 0x1a9eba
#define COLOR0 0x024f50
#define COLOR1 0x03b9c7
#define COLOR2 0x039ea3
#define COLOR3 0x046a6b
#define COLOR4 0x05312e
#define COLOR5 0x0fdbe6
#define COLOR6 0x120e06
#define COLOR7 0x14251b
#define COLOR8 0x281905
#define COLOR9 0x332309

#define max(a,b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
#define min(a,b) ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
#define indexof(c,s) (strchr((s),(c))-(s))

Then I did "make" and "sudo make install". Amirite?

[machinebacon]

Wait a moment, I try :)

[machinebacon]

Yes sir, as you said. make, sudo make install. Does it throw out errors?

[Dr_Chroot]

^ Nein,

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 ~/git/bar »  make
cc -std=c99 -Os -o bar.o -c bar.c
cc -o bar bar.o -lxcb -lxcb-xinerama -lxcb-randr

 ~/git/bar »  sudo make install
[sudo] password for neihai: 
pod2man --section=1 --center="bar Manual" --name "bar" --release="bar 6959085" README.pod > bar.1
install -D -m 755 bar /usr/bin/bar
install -D -m 644 bar.1 /usr/share/man/man1/bar.1

 ~/git/bar »  

[machinebacon]

So what exactly "doesn't seem to work"?

[Dr_Chroot]

@MB I couldn't get my xcolors to work with it... but I may have it fixed now. Sorry :D

One moment... just thought of something. Do I need to change my .statsbar?

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#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                           
# z3bra + dkeg. I took it, removed some lines and then mutilated it.                                                                
# Then repaired it with dkeg and z3bras configs again. So it is still mostly theirs.                                                

temp() {
    awk '{print $1/1000}' /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
}
mem() {
    free -m | awk 'NR==3 {print $3}'
}
clock() {
    date +'%e %b %R'
}
batt() {
    cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity 2>/dev/null
}
music() {
    cmusbar 2>/dev/null
}
vol() {
    amixer get Master | tail -1 | sed 's/.*\[\([0-9]*%\)\].*/\1/' | sed -e 's/%//g'
}
tags() {
    herbstclient list_monitors | awk '{gsub(/"/," ");print $5}'
    #herbstclient tag_status                                                                                                        
}
pingd() {
    $HOME/bin/pingd
}

# Fill buffer, output it to stdout.                                                                                                 
while :; do
    buf="%{l} %{B#FFeeeeee} "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFa69c8e} batt "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF1d1f21} $(batt) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFa69c8e} mem "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF1d1f21} $(mem) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFa69c8e} vol "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF1d1f21} $(vol) %{c}"
#    buf="${buf} %{F#FF120f20} $(music) %{r}"                                                                                       
#    buf="${buf} %{F#FFa69c8e} $(pingd) "                                                                                           
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF1d1f21} $(clock) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FFFFFFFF} $() "

    echo $buf
    sleep 1
done

[Dr_Chroot]

Ha! Here I have it! I am an idiot. Sorry, MB :/ Just needed to change my statsbar config. If I had dogecoin, I would you buy you a drink...

[machinebacon]

Well there are hard-coded colors in the fill-buffer section, if my swollen eyes see it right.

F#FFFFFFFFFF is definitely white. You probably want to use your .Xresources colors there, instead of hardcoded ones.

[dkeg]

We have a winner ....

[dkeg]

There is a lesson here.

[machinebacon]

You can write a little script that changes those colors matching to those that "xrdb -query all" spits out. You would use something like

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# Fill buffer, output it to stdout.                                                                                                 
while :; do
    buf="%{l} %{B#FF$color0} "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color6} batt "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color3} $(batt) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color3} mem "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color3} $(mem) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color3} vol "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color4} $(vol) %{c}"
#    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color4} $(music) %{r}"                                                                                       
#    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color6} $(pingd) "                                                                                           
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color6} $(clock) "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "
    buf="${buf} %{F#FF$color0} $() "

    echo $buf
    sleep 1
done

in your stats script, and then do some sed action and simply add the color strings from 'xrdb -q all' in the top part of the stats script, as variables.

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xrdb -query all | grep color |awk -F'#' '{print $1 $2}' >~/.statscolors.cfg 

and so on, no idea now :D

[machinebacon]

sorry, edit: the method before is bullshit, but you probably know what I mean :D

[Dr_Chroot]

Fantastic! Thanks so much for your help... you have made my day :D (And my future ricing much faster!)

@dkeg Jeez, no kidding. This is embarrassing, but at least I will never forget to check all possible configs first :)

[machinebacon]

^ yes, that's how they ...

...wow, nice colors!!

[dkeg]

Yes. You can easily set variables.
I mapped something like that out in my head to help automate some of the manual processes I do for scheme creation.

[Dr_Chroot]

^ yes, that's how they ...

...wow, nice colors!!

Thanks! I should probably add more oranges into my xcolors to match the bar, but I also like the greens in there too.

I was originally trying to emulate this watch with this strap and it all went downhill from there... I had a hard time tossing orange into the xcolors, but I might tweak with them a bit more and do just that. it worked splendidly with the bar, though :D

[dkeg]

All the fun happens while I'm at work

[dkeg]

I'm off my phone now, and can probably add some stuff here. In previouses releases of BAR, yes, you would have made changes as you describe above. Not sure when, but maybe even close to a year ago, BAR was re-written to be more dynamic and w/o a config.h, removing the need to compile. One would follow the syntax for colors, font, position, etc.
https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar
so for instance

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#! /bin/bash

# cool status script

#colors
bg='%{B#FF111111}'
fg='${F#FF999999}'
white='%{F#FFFFFFFF}'
black='%{F#FF000000}'

output1 (){
stuff
}
output2 (){
stuff
}
output3 (){
stuff
}
sleep 2
echo $bg $white${output1}%{c} $white{output2}%{r} $white${output3}

elsewhere

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coolstats|bar widthxhieght+x+y -p -f <font> &

Disclaimer: something like that