Greetings,
I apologize for any confusion in the wording, this is quite hard for me to explain.

The problem is that when creating a new theme with pywal, the first time I create a new theme after opening code, the theme of code will not change, but after the second change, the theme will change to the theme that was created by the first change, thus being always one theme behind. This can be corrected by manually updating the theme via a command.
I have attached a video giving a bit of a demonstration of what I mean.

I notice that this imports ~/.cache/wal/colors

However this file does not include the "special" section found in colors.json which includes background and foreground.

It would be nice if this theme would import the json and used those properties if they exist to better match the actual background and foreground of the system when applied with wal.

Thank you!

hi, i m trying to modify the template file that generates the wal and wal-bordered color schemes. i am modifying the file in ~/.vscode/extensions/{extension dir}/out/template.js
However thes modifications fo not register and the theme is generated for the original color specified, not the new color number. I tried changing the out/src/template.js file but to no avail.

Can you provide me some insight into this?

can you tell me which file does this extension use from .cache/wal ? i want to change few colors manually.

So, I noticed that the theme generated by the extension has a simple syntax highlighting. It happens to be that it uses the same color for two types of highlighted things. For example, in JavaScript files, the same color used in reserved keywords (const, let, var, import etc) is also used in function names.

While in basically any other theme for VSCode, each has it's own color (this theme here is Dracula.min)

Something similar occurs in HTML files, where the tag names uses the same color as the property values from an element.

By the way, here's the colors from the scheme that Pywal generated.

Hi, I am tweaking the colors a bit by my own in files ~/.cache/wal/colors and ~/.cache/wal/colors.json. Theme works perfectly fine if I don't have colors.json, but presents a black background if that file is present. colors.json is required for pywalfox that I use to theme firefox. The theme works if I use the files generated by wal and donot edit them. Could you please point me in the right direction.
Here are my colors.json and colors files,

{
    "wallpaper": "/home/job/.config/themes/walls/shuttle.png",
    "alpha": 100,
    "special": {
        "foreground:": "#e3dad1",
        "background:": "#0c080d",
        "cursor": "#e3dad1"
    },
    "colors": {
        "color0:": "#0c080d",
        "color8:": "#9e9892",
        "color1:": "#911728",
        "color9:": "#b72520",
        "color2:": "#57293b",
        "color10:": "#c05a82",
        "color3:": "#ba5622",
        "color11:": "#fa752f",
        "color4:": "#224260",
        "color12:": "#2087e6",
        "color5:": "#94605d",
        "color13:": "#ff857e",
        "color6:": "#7b8689",
        "color14:": "#21cfff",
        "color7:": "#e3dad1",
        "color15:": "#e3dad1"
    }
}

#0c080d
#911728
#57293b
#ba5622
#224260
#94605d
#7b8689
#e3dad1
#9e9892
#b72520
#c05a82
#fa752f
#2087e6
#ff857e
#21cfff
#e3dad1

Managed to get this working with wallust. Leaving it here since it might be useful for someone.

wallust.toml

[[entry]]
# create ~/cache/wal folder first
template="pywal-colors"
target="~/.cache/wal/colors"

pywal-colors template

{color0}
{color1}
{color2}
{color3}
{color4}
{color5}
{color6}
{color7}
{color8}
{color9}
{color10}
{color11}
{color12}
{color13}
{color14}
{color15}

Hello,
Great extension!
Running Manjaro with WPGTK and pywal. Theme is not getting set automatically. However, if I click the set theme button, it's working. It's also not changing font colors. Any ideas? What other information can I get you to help? Thanks!

I'm running NixOS which is using a read-only file system. I have the extension installed but whenever I change my wallpaper through wal, the extension returns the following error:

EROFS: read-only file system, open '/nix/store/vh8ikilblbcvga2l002254177dg5g9xg-vscode-extension-dlasagno-wal-theme-1.2.0/share/vscode/extensions/dlasagno.wal-theme/themes/wal.json'

I assume it wants to write the color settings to this file? Is it possible to point this towards a location in the user directory? Maybe point it to a wal generated template?

Lots of open source extensions are being added to that repository. This is useful for onivim users like me, since the project seeks to support vscode extensions, but only pulls from that repo.

Relevant links:
https://onivim.github.io/docs/configuration/extensions
https://open-vsx.org/
https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php

I am not suggesting some kind of code rework or bugfix, just the ability to download the extension from there.

The background color is different in the area with text and without text.

In the attached screenshot, the left side is lighter than the right side.

I check the template, could not figure out why -- maybe you can shade some light on this... Thank you!

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, as entering the command in the directions gives me search results, which does not include this theme.

It isn't installing from the marketplace through the command written there
ext install dlasagno.wal-theme
It throws an error that it is incompatible with the VS Code 1.37.1 which is the latest version in Manjaro using bspwm as the window manager.

As you can see in these screenshots, it's almost impossible to see the comments and line numbers. What's the best way to change which color is used for these elements? I was going to modify individual color schemes through wal or wpg, but I notice the problem happens with every scheme, so I'd rather do it another way.

So wal has the -l flag to tell it it's a light theme. But this is not the thing we might want to rely on! If someone uses the -f flag to use a file, you end up not having that info.

What I'm trying to say is, it would be nice that "type": "dark", in the wal*.json files wasn't hardcoded but calculated using, maybe the background to say "it's light" or "it's dark".

Of course I don't know if this might even be possible, but I wanted to ask 🙂

Keep up the great work! 😁

Hi,

I stumbled upon this extension. Is it possible to install in VSCodium as well, and if so, how can I do it? Thank you in advance for your support :)

Hi! Thank you for this awesome extension! It works perfectly locally. However, the color scheme generated by pywal could not be properly loaded after connecting to the remote machine using vscode-remote. It seems that the extension is looking for the pywal cache folder on the remote machine and gives an error when trying to update the theme.

Couldn't load colors from pywal cache, be sure to run pywal before updating.

I'm wondering if there is any workaround for this as I mostly work on the vscode-remote.

Thank you so much!