Pass terminal value to autostart.sh

[Eduardo Queiroz]

Hi guys,

I would like to know if it is possible to pass a variable value from the qtile config file to autostart.sh. The main thing is I use kitty in one system and alacritty and another system and if could pass the value of terminal=guess_terminal() to the bash script it would simplify things to share configs between the machines.

Thanks,

Eduardo 

[Popescu Ervin]

I use the `qtile.test_data` variable which allows for anything(lists,dicts etc). You could do `qtile.test_data=terminal` and in autostart.sh do `qtile cmd-obj -o cmd -f eval -a "self.test_data" ` and extract the second value from the tuple which is returned `(True/False, your_terminal)` , however you'd want to do that.

[Justine Smithies]

Would doing the following in you config.py not work ?

Export value for shell with 

d["GUESSED_TERMINAL"] = terminal

Then in your autostart script read $GUESSED_TERMINAL 

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[Eduardo Queiroz]

I tried Justine's solution and ended up with a broken setup (default qtile was loaded). The solution that worked for me was:

config.py

import os

terminal = guess_terminal()

os.environ["shell_var"] = terminal

and then in the autostart.sh

$shell_var &

[Sebastian Heiden]

Is there a script/tool to set/change default themes/rices for the
bar/windows in qtile?

So far I have hard coded the colors.

[Eduardo Queiroz]

So I wouldn't call a script but to make it easier to change the themes a created a file called cSchemes.py in the same folder of config.py.

The colorschemes need to be 2D arrays. Then I imported cSchemes.py into config.py and made a variable that would get the colorscheme.

Anywhere when i needed a color I called this variable with the array position I wanted.

Hope that helps

[Jacob Hilker]

I'm currently using Nix-colors for maintaining my colorscheme and home-manager for managing my config files, and so I currently have this file for setting up my color-scheme and wallpaper.

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