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If you are Reading this, you are probably interested in my dotfiles.
I have a few things to say before you start using them.

I use autologin via ~/.zprofile

# Ensures me getting auto logged in into Hyprland
check() {
command -v "$1" &>/dev/null
}

check center-align && {
echo "$USER" | center-align
}

check Hyprland && {
pgrep -x Hyprland &>/dev/null || Hyprland &>/dev/null
} || {
echo "Hyprland Not found will not launch it as GUI instance"
}

• Wal: My most of the colors are generated from pywal16 i have added templates but if you want to look at a generated file for reference, You can find that at extra/wal this is in the same format as it will be generated inside ~/.cache/wal. It has been generated using image below

• Stow : Stow is the tool i prefer to manage my dot files (i use xstow to be exact but it shouldn't matter).

  stow ./dir -t <target dir>
  

  e.g

  stow .config -t ~/.config
  

  Will create softlinks to all the dir inside repos .config to ~/.config/

• Pywal : As i have mentioned earlier i use a pywal fork. It provides a 16 base color scheme.

  pywal16 provides .lighten(val%) and .darken(val%) to lighten or darken the colors. I use them in my templates so normal pywal won't work here.

  wal -a 92 --cols16 darken --recursive -i ./path/to/wallpaper/or/dir -o after-wal
  

  _{You can check about wal command args by doing wal --help}

  I want to grab your attention here for the after-wal script.

  • after-wal : This will be executed after wal command is executed.
    The wal command will generate all the color schemes from the ~/.config/wal/templates/ dir and place them in ~/.cache/wal.
    It is the after wal command that places the color schemes in the right place and does the right thing.
    e.g
    • It copies colors-waybar.css to ~/.config/waybar/colors.css (this file is in .gitignore)
    • It copies kvantum theme with a name of pywal also takes care for dir creation.
    • It copies gradience theme with a name of pywal also takes care for dir creation.
    • It copies background image for firefox to ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default/chrome/
      This is acheived by placing a bg named file in the mozilla dir and then finding the file by using fd command and placing wallpaper.png to that dir
    • It generates a blurred version fo the wallpaper with name ~/.cache/wal-blurr.png

  After executing stow you will find this command in you ~/.local/bin dir.