Vesktop theme not dynamically updating

[vipansegrouw]

Using themecord with pywal and vesktop, the theme is indeed updating under the hood, but it is not reflected until I turn the theme off and on again inside vesktop

Do I perhaps need to update my script with some refresh for vesktop somehow?

Happy to share more info if needed.

[danihek]

are you running themecord right after using pywal? If no just add it at the end of your script and it should work

[vipansegrouw]

My script is the following

#!/bin/bash
wal -i ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/
~/themecord -p

and it's evidently updating the theme itsself since toggling the theme on and off from the vesktop ui changes the colours to the new scheme, so it's quite perplexing!

[danihek]

Hmm, its quite odd - I use vesktop myself and it's updating without issues with all hellwal, pywal and wallust.

I'm curious, did you copy the script to home folder? or you just misstyped

~/themecord -p

to

themecord -p

because if you installed it normally, for example from aur you can just run it like normal program.

Also do you have similar output?

dh » themecord
[SUCCESS] Vencord DETECTED (path: /home/dh/.config/Vencord)
[SUCCESS] vesktop DETECTED (path: /home/dh/.config/vesktop)
[INFO] Themecord found in Vencord
[INFO] Themecord found in vesktop
[INFO] discord-colors.css path: /home/dh/.cache/hellwal/discord-colors.css

Even if... you said that toggling theme switch on/off changes it so I dont really know... vesktop should pick it up automatically....

[vipansegrouw]

Yeah it's in my home folder as I installed manually, i might move it to usr bin soon but I don't think it's related to this problem

the output when I run it is the same as yours except for the vencord line

[FAILURE] Vencord not DETECTED (path: /home/apotheotic/.config/Vencord)
[SUCCESS] vesktop DETECTED (path: /home/apotheotic/.config/vesktop)
[INFO] Themecord found in vesktop
[INFO] discord-colors.css path: /home/apotheotic/.cache/wal/discord-colors.css

I suppose it could be an issue on the vesktop side of things as opposed to this script - I'll see what I can dig up there in the meantime!

[vipansegrouw]

I am happy and surprised to report that it has randomly started working - I changed nothing. Perhaps all that was needed was a restart.

I'll close the thread - thanks for the help!