Change theme based on system appearance settings

[tony-sol]

Prett muchthe title - is there a way to change eza theme based on system appearance settings?

E.g. for fzf i use this hack

export COLORTHEME=tokyonight
export COLORSCHEME=$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle &> /dev/null && echo 'dark' || echo 'light')
export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--color=$(<"${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/fzf/themes/${COLORTHEME}-${COLORSCHEME}")"

It looks like this could be acheived via EZA_COLORS, but is there a tool to convert theme.yml into LS_COLORS format?

[ShreeChaturvedi]

Same trick as your fzf line. Set EZA_CONFIG_DIR to a directory that already has a theme.yml. You can leave the yaml as-is.

Copy extras/eza/tokyonight_night.yml from folke/tokyonight.nvim to ~/.config/eza/dark/theme.yml and tokyonight_day.yml to ~/.config/eza/light/theme.yml. The filename has to be theme.yml. The stock files are in eza-themes. Unset LS_COLORS and EZA_COLORS or they override the yaml. Then next to the fzf export:

export COLORSCHEME=$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle &> /dev/null && echo 'dark' || echo 'light')
export EZA_CONFIG_DIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/eza/${COLORSCHEME}"
unset LS_COLORS EZA_COLORS

[tony-sol]

Yep, that would work

TBH, EZA_CONFIG_DIR is a horrible naming for its usage, i had to read a code to ensure this trick won't break anything
(And it won't - there is nothing else besides theme.yml supported)