xresources VS dotfiles

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xresources

Posts with mentions or reviews of xresources. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.
  • Neomutt: Using start-hook to activate pywal
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Feb 2022
    So in my xresources, I have it point to one of a ton of themes. The current one is this nord theme. It sets the colors 0-15 and the background and foreground (as do all the other xresources themes). Then my neomutt colors looks like this. All I have to do is change the theme my xresources points to and my neomutt colors change automatically because they point to the colors 0-15 and background and foreground. By the way, "default" in the neomutt color scheme refers to the background and foreground colors.
  • nixos machine w xmonad: monitors go to sleep and won't wake up!
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 19 Dec 2021
    services.xserver = { enable = true; layout = "se"; xkbOptions = "eurosign:e"; libinput.enable = true; displayManager = { defaultSession = "xfce+xmonad"; lightdm = { enable = true; }; # I have a custom Xresources file that contain the "nord" color scheme (https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-xresources) sessionCommands = '' ${pkgs.xlibs.xrdb}/bin/xrdb -load ${./src/Xresources} ''; }; desktopManager = { xterm.enable = false; xfce = { enable = true; noDesktop = true; enableXfwm = false; # This is just so that I can open zip-files in the file manager thunarPlugins = [ pkgs.xfce.thunar-archive-plugin ]; }; }; # I have created my own xmonad package (called "zxmonad") that contains the xmonad.hs and some other things. I have this custom session just so that I can start my xmonad package and my polybar systemd service. windowManager = { session = [{ name = "xmonad"; start = '' exec ${zxmonad}/bin/zxmonad & waitPID=$! sleep 1 systemctl --user start polybar ''; }]; }; };
  • Icon Fonts Not Working in rxvt-unicode
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Dec 2021
    ! Copyright (c) 2016-present Arctic Ice Studio ! Copyright (c) 2016-present Sven Greb ! Project: Nord XResources ! Version: 0.1.0 ! Repository: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-xresources ! License: MIT #define nord0 #2E3440 #define nord1 #3B4252 #define nord2 #434C5E #define nord3 #4C566A #define nord4 #D8DEE9 #define nord5 #E5E9F0 #define nord6 #ECEFF4 #define nord7 #8FBCBB #define nord8 #88C0D0 #define nord9 #81A1C1 #define nord10 #5E81AC #define nord11 #BF616A #define nord12 #D08770 #define nord13 #EBCB8B #define nord14 #A3BE8C #define nord15 #B48EAD *.foreground: nord4 *.background: nord0 *.cursorColor: nord4 !*fading: 35 !*fadeColor: nord3 *.color0: nord1 *.color1: nord11 *.color2: nord14 *.color3: nord13 *.color4: nord9 *.color5: nord15 *.color6: nord8 *.color7: nord5 *.color8: nord3 *.color9: nord11 *.color10: nord14 *.color11: nord13 *.color12: nord9 *.color13: nord15 *.color14: nord7 *.color15: nord6 URxvt.secondaryScreen: 1 URxvt.secondaryScroll: 0 URxvt.font: xft:Fira Code:size=14,xft:Symbols Nerd Font:size=14 !URxvt.font: xft:Symbols Nerd Font:size=14 URxvt.letterSpace: -1 URxvt.scrollBar: true URxvt.scrollBar_right: true URxvt.scrollBar_floating: true !! Common Keybinds for Navigations URxvt.keysym.Shift-Up: command:\033]720;4\007 URxvt.keysym.Shift-Down: command:\033]721;4\007 URxvt.keysym.Control-Up: \033[1;5A URxvt.keysym.Control-Down: \033[1;5B URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C URxvt.keysym.Control-Left: \033[1;5D URxvt.clipboard.autocopy: false ! Disable ISO 14755 unicode input so we can use Ctrl-Shift bindings URxvt.iso14755: false URxvt.iso14755_52: false ! Disable Ctrl-Alt-c & Ctrl-Alt-v bindings (optional) URxvt.keysym.C-M-c: builtin-string: URxvt.keysym.C-M-v: builtin-string: ! Bind Ctrl-Shift-c & Ctrl-Shift-v to copy and paste ! I dont know why, but I needed to use hex keysym values to get it to work URxvt.keysym.C-S-0x43: eval:selection_to_clipboard URxvt.keysym.C-S-0x56: eval:paste_clipboard URxvt.perl-ext-common:default,matcher,resize-font,bell-command URxvt.url-launcher: /usr/bin/xdg-open URxvt.matcher.button: 1 URxvt.keysym.C-Delete: perl:matcher:last URxvt.keysym.M-Delete: perl:matcher:list URxvt.matcher.rend.0: Uline fg6 ! Disable fading !URxvt*fading: false ! Bell !URxvt.bell-command: setsid mpv --keep-open=no /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga &>/dev/null

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-01.
  • calling plugin configs
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2022
    Of course. Here are mine.
  • Neomutt: Using start-hook to activate pywal
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Feb 2022
    So in my xresources, I have it point to one of a ton of themes. The current one is this nord theme. It sets the colors 0-15 and the background and foreground (as do all the other xresources themes). Then my neomutt colors looks like this. All I have to do is change the theme my xresources points to and my neomutt colors change automatically because they point to the colors 0-15 and background and foreground. By the way, "default" in the neomutt color scheme refers to the background and foreground colors.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xresources and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

alacritty - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Alacritty color scheme.

dircolors - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant dircolors theme.

nvim - 🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

foot - 🦶 Soothing pastel theme for Foot

gnome-terminal - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant GNOME Terminal color theme.

autocomplete - IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

template - 💡 Template for Catppuccin ports. Please follow the instructions below

alacritty - 🌴 Soothing pastel theme for Alacritty

termux - ⛄ Soothing pastel theme for Termux

iterm - 🍭 Soothing pastel theme for iTerm2

kitty - 😽 Soothing pastel theme for Kitty