Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Basic dark mode support

From: Serg Tereshchenko <serg.partizan@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2020, 08:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20201008082004.5643-1-serg.partizan@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201007111333.iojf5dbwoxbnie3z@yadavpratyush.com>

> How do you tell git-gui which theme to use? I had some trouble setting 
> the theme and ended up adding code to source the theme files and then 
> set the theme via `ttk::style theme use`. I hope there is a better way 
> than that.

Yes, there is. To change theme on the fly use:

    echo '*TkTheme: clam' | xrdb -merge -

To set theme, add "*TkTheme: clam" to ~/.Xresources and run

    xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

There is lack of dark themes in default tk installs right now, i'm using awdark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl-awthemes/

To install theme you need to unpack it somewhere like ~/.local/share/tk-themes/awthemes And tell tcl where to find it.

    export TCLLIBPATH=$HOME/.local/share/tk-themes

I had to modify version numbers inside awthemes package to make in work, but hope it'll be fixed upstream.

Here is blog post which explains this in greater detail: http://blog.serindu.com/2019/03/07/applying-tk-themes-to-git-gui/

-- Regards, Serg Tereshchenko