From d923956d4866beb5093c89e0c1a4f54a9c37070f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasil Zlatanov Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 01:39:43 +0200 Subject: major fixes and rearrangement --- config/ratpoison/README.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 config/ratpoison/README.md (limited to 'config/ratpoison/README.md') diff --git a/config/ratpoison/README.md b/config/ratpoison/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6970672 --- /dev/null +++ b/config/ratpoison/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# wp + +wp is a small tool I use to generate color schemes from images, and manage desktop wallpapers. + +The color extraction scripts were taken from [this blog post](http://charlesleifer.com/blog/using-python-and-k-means-to-find-the-dominant-colors-in-images/) + with normalization reddit user radiosilence. + +## Dependencies + +As far as I know this only relies on PIL, python image library. I was able to fulfill this dependency with the `python-pillow` package on Arch Linux. +On other systems, `pip install Pillow`. + +## Usage + +``` +$ wp add [file] +``` + +Generates color files .[file].colors and .[file].Xres which can be sourced by shell +scripts and xrdb respectivly. The color files and the image are added to the backgrounds directory. + +``` +$ wp change [file] +``` + +Changes the background image to a random image from the ~/.wallpapers directory, or the file passed, and loads the .Xres file +into xrdb so xterm or urxvt will use the colors. It also links a script to ~/.colors. If you `source ~/.colors` in a script +you can use the generated colors with `$COLOR0`, `$COLOR1`, ... + + +``` +$ wp rm [file] +``` + +Removes the image and it's color files from the backgrounds directory. + +``` +$ wp ls +``` + +Lists the images in the backgrounds folder. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf