xrdb colors not being set by wal -r in xinitrc

[davidfstein]

Pywal is working well when I login and run wal -R. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work automatically on startx. I have wal -R in my xinitrc, however, things like polybar which trys to set colors from xrdb are not receiving the wal colors and instead are using the fallback colors. Similarly, my wallpaper is not being set (feh is installed).

.xinitrc

wal -R &

xset +fp /home/david/.local/share/fonts
xset fp rehash

picom -b

exec /usr/bin/i3

I'm running ubuntu 20.04 on a dell XPS 9500

[arcmags]

Try not sending wal to the background: wal -R not wal -R &.