Carry the colour scheme into btop and tmux

Two more applications that keep their own palette and so never followed
the desktop. btop was on "Default" and had never been themed at all;
tmux had Tokyo Night Moon hardcoded across seventeen lines, which meant
a dark status bar sitting under a light terminal in light mode.

Both themes are authored rather than borrowed. btop ships a
"tokyo-night" theme, but it is the Night variant (#1a1b26) where the
rest of this desktop is Moon (#222436), and two Tokyo Nights side by
side read as a mistake; it ships no Tokyo Night light theme at all.
Colours come from kitty's theme files so a terminal and what runs inside
it cannot disagree.

tmux follows kitty's shape: the colours move to themes/, tmux.conf
sources a generated current-theme.conf, and running servers are
re-sourced so an open session changes immediately rather than at next
launch. btop is different -- it OWNS btop.conf and rewrites it on exit,
so only the color_theme line is edited in place and the file is not
symlinked into the repository. btop reads its theme once at startup, so
a running instance keeps the old colours; forcing a restart would kill a
process the user is watching.

The tmux light theme took two passes. Mapping the palette role-for-role
put the standard Day accents on a mid-grey panel at 2.74:1 and 2.94:1 --
under the 3:1 floor, on a bar you read at a glance. It now uses Day's
darker accent variants on a lighter panel: 4.42:1 and 4.17:1, and
5.01:1 / 4.73:1 for the light text inside the inverted blocks.

The helper also now reports every target rather than only kitty. Saying
"kitty: applied" while silently skipping three other applications is
how a half-applied theme goes unnoticed.

Not changed: bat is configured with --theme ansi, which follows the
terminal's own palette, so it already tracks kitty with nothing to do.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-18 11:04:00 -04:00
parent b16834fea6
commit 27af4fd443
8 changed files with 270 additions and 19 deletions
@@ -31,6 +31,54 @@ case "$scheme" in
*) printf 'usage: panama-theme-apps [dark|light]\n' >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac
# ── tmux ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Generated like kitty's: tmux.conf sources current-theme.conf, and that file is
# machine state rather than configuration. Running servers are re-sourced so an
# open session changes now instead of at next launch -- tmux applies a
# source-file to every attached client immediately.
tmux_dir="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/tmux"
tmux_theme="$tmux_dir/themes/tokyonight-moon.conf"
[[ "$scheme" == "light" ]] && tmux_theme="$tmux_dir/themes/tokyonight-day.conf"
status_tmux="skipped"
if [[ -r "$tmux_theme" ]]; then
if cp "$tmux_theme" "$tmux_dir/current-theme.conf.tmp" 2>/dev/null \
&& mv "$tmux_dir/current-theme.conf.tmp" "$tmux_dir/current-theme.conf" 2>/dev/null; then
status_tmux="written"
# Only if a server is actually running; `tmux source-file` would
# otherwise start one just to theme it.
if command -v tmux >/dev/null 2>&1 && tmux has-session 2>/dev/null; then
tmux source-file "$tmux_dir/current-theme.conf" 2>/dev/null \
&& status_tmux="applied to running sessions"
fi
else
rm -f "$tmux_dir/current-theme.conf.tmp"
status_tmux="failed"
fi
fi
# ── btop ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Only the color_theme line is rewritten, in place. btop OWNS btop.conf -- it
# rewrites the whole file on exit -- so the config is not symlinked into Panama
# and not replaced wholesale here; just this one value is edited, and btop keeps
# it on the next write.
#
# btop reads its theme once at startup, so a running instance keeps the old
# colours until it is restarted. That is acceptable for a monitor you open when
# you want it, and forcing a restart would kill a process the user is watching.
btop_conf="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/btop/btop.conf"
btop_theme="tokyonight-moon"
[[ "$scheme" == "light" ]] && btop_theme="tokyonight-day"
status_btop="skipped"
if [[ -w "$btop_conf" ]]; then
if sed -i "s|^color_theme *=.*|color_theme = \"$btop_theme\"|" "$btop_conf" 2>/dev/null; then
status_btop="written"
else
status_btop="failed"
fi
fi
# ── GTK ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# adw-gtk3, not Adwaita: no Adwaita GTK theme is installed on Fedora 44, and
# naming a theme that does not exist makes GTK fall back to its light default --
@@ -89,4 +137,13 @@ if [[ -r "$theme_file" ]]; then
fi
fi
printf '{"scheme":"%s","kitty":"%s"}\n' "$scheme" "$status_kitty"
# Every target reports what actually happened. A helper that says only
# "kitty: applied" while silently skipping three other applications is how a
# half-applied theme goes unnoticed.
jq -cn \
--arg scheme "$scheme" \
--arg kitty "$status_kitty" \
--arg gtk "$status_gtk" \
--arg btop "$status_btop" \
--arg tmux "$status_tmux" \
'{scheme: $scheme, kitty: $kitty, gtk: $gtk, btop: $btop, tmux: $tmux}'