Auto-detect system colors for dynamic Neovim theming.

[xWhosYourDaddy]

Hello everyone,
I’m trying to implement automatic theme configuration in Neovim that adapts to system-wide color preferences, similar to how the foot terminal dynamically inherits colors from the system (when wallpaper changes).

For example, foot automatically detects color schemes via system and applies them without manual intervention. I’d like to replicate this behavior in Neovim.

Please let me know how this can be implemented. I apologize in advance if this is a silly question, but I'm completely new to Linux.

[i-tried-to-use-arch-btw]

Not an answer but that'd require a neovim config that comes with the dotfiles and you know I'm pretty sure the owner doesn't want to add "bloat" to his dot files. But you can get that just by learning a bit of lua and customizing neovim to use the colors extracted by pywal or whatever the dots use

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Well I don't use Neovim at all so it would be kind of irresponsible if I just added a poorly made config that overwrites people's configs on installation and never update it in case it's not good enough or whatever

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Method 1: Updated instantly, not dotfile-update-friendly, more explanation for me and less work for you

The script that's responsible for applying the generated colors is .config/ags/scripts/color_generation/applycolor.sh. A function to apply one thing checks if its template exists, if yes copies it to somewhere an appropriate place in cache folder and loops the list of colors and does replacements with sed, and finally copies the file with the replacements from cache to the destination. You should copy apply_hyprland() function and create a template file for your whatever app you wanna apply the colors in .config/ags/scripts/templates. A template file is your config with colors being some specially marked value so it gets detected correctly by the applycolor.sh script, something like {{ $secondaryContainer }}. Modify the function in the script and the template accordingly...
Note that this way if you ever update the dotfiles, applycolor.sh will be overwritten.

Method 2: Not updated instantly, dotfile-update-friendly, less explanation for me and more work for you

Another way is to do it from elsewhere. You can create a script that when run looks at ~/.local/state/ags/scss/_material.scss and make use of the colors from there