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🎨 Wallpaper Integration ✨🖼️

My dotfiles include seamless support for both 🌌 Nord and 🌲 Everforest wallpapers, dynamically managed through Nix flakes and tightly coupled with the current color scheme. Beautiful wallpapers, automatically in sync with your system theme. 🌈🚀

📦 Flake Inputs 🧊🌿

Both wallpaper collections are added as inputs in flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nord-wallpapers = {
      url = "github:Gurjaka/Nord-Wallpapers";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    everforest-wallpapers = {
      url = "github:Gurjaka/Everforest-Wallpapers";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };
}

🏡 Home Manager Integration 🔗📂

In home-manager/modules/theme/wallpapers.nix, the contents of each repo are symlinked into ~/.config/wallpapers/:

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:

{
  home.file = {
    ".config/wallpapers/nord/" = {
      source = inputs.nord-wallpapers.packages."${pkgs.system}".default;
      recursive = true;
    };
    ".config/wallpapers/everforest/" = {
      source = inputs.everforest-wallpapers.packages."${pkgs.system}".default;
      recursive = true;
    };
  };
}

📁 This setup ensures all wallpapers are in one tidy location based on theme. 🧼✨

🔁 Dynamic Wallpaper Switching (wallrandom) 🎲🖼️

A custom script called wallrandom randomly picks a wallpaper based on the current theme, then applies it using swww with a beautiful animated transition. 🌠

Defined in wallrandom.nix:

{ pkgs }:

pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "wallrandom" ''
  set -e

  FLAKE=$HOME/Dotfiles/flake.nix
  FLAKE_DIR=$HOME/Dotfiles

  # Detect current theme from flake.nix
  current=$(grep 'colorscheme = "' "$FLAKE" | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')

  DIR=$HOME/.config/wallpapers/$current
  PICS=($(ls ''${DIR}))
  RANDOMPICS=''${PICS[ $RANDOM % ''${#PICS[@]} ]}

  swww query || swww-daemon

  swww img ''${DIR}/''${RANDOMPICS} \
    --transition-fps 165 \
    --transition-type grow \
    --transition-pos 0.2,0.2 \
    --transition-duration 1
''

🔍 This script:

  • 🔎 Detects your current colorscheme from the flake
  • 🎲 Picks a random wallpaper from the theme-matched folder
  • 🌄 Applies it with a smooth swww transition

🧪 Usage 💻⚡

Once wallrandom is in your $PATH, just run:

wallrandom

💡 Pro Tip: Bind this to a keyboard shortcut in your WM for instant wallpaper shuffle magic. 🧙

These collections are handcrafted and curated with aesthetics and compatibility in mind. 🎨🧘‍♂️