Using wal -i <path to images directory> restarts BSPWM and doesn't change the background

Like material color engine?

while working on #6 i found some problems with the export submodule as adding new properties isn't as straightforward as it seems.

the attempted properties under util.py

    @property
    def red_dec(self):
        """Red value as decimal."""
        return "%s" % hex_to_rgb(self.hex_color)[0]

    @property
    def green_dec(self):
        """Green value as decimal."""
        return "%s" % hex_to_rgb(self.hex_color)[1]

    @property
    def blue_dec(self):
        """Blue value as decimal."""
        return "%s" % hex_to_rgb(self.hex_color)[2]

trying to use these on a template results in a pywal error:

 File "/home/ed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pywal/export.py", line 27, in template
    new_color = util.Color(colors[cname].hex_color)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'hex_color'

this clearly shows that there is a problem in the template exporting code as it is necesary to to specify lenght of the format string "%3s" to make the colors export, the lenght of the string should not matter at all and the end result padding with spaces may not be desirable.

there clearly was a problem with that part of the code as evidenced by a2ddff3 , in order to continue the development of this fork the important functions such as the template function of the export submodule should be clear on what they do, for that reason i'm asking @AmitPr and @loiccoyle if they can chime in to help with the debugging the problem so that we can iron out these kinks.

Currently whenever a terminal is in suspended mode (and maybe for some other reasons) and pywal tries to send the color sequences to it the save_file here:

it will get stuck trying to write indefinitelly, blocking the writing to the remaining ttys and program itself

I tried this PR Add --active-only flag to only run pywal on active ttys from dylanaraps repo. But unfortunately it didn't work for Kitty, which doesn't show up in who output for some reason and also doesn't handle the aforementioned suspend mode.

So I am wondering if there is a way to reliably detect whether a tty cannot receive input so it is skipped. Konsole links to this wiki page about Software Flow Control, could it be that there is a way to detect in which state a tty is? Or will it be okay putting a timeout to the write operation to abort when it gets stuck?

How install pywal16 (not pywal?)

using it as backend of wpgtk?

I switched to your pywal fork and i noticed that background colors are almost pitch black compared to python-pywal i was using before

Is there any way to make pywal16 behave like python-pywal
(I used VSCode as a example but this apllies to anything that sues @backgroundColor including my waybar and rofi presets)

python-pywal package from arch repo

pywal16 installed with pipx