[Bug] Templates as symlinks wont readed by hellwal

[Adevald]

I found an issue when tries to copy your nixos dotfiles. When i create a templates from nixos, it actually creates a symlinks in store, and templates wont reads by hellwal.

I directly created an actual file with the same content, and everything works fine.

[TheElevatedOne]

This is an issue many pieces of software have.

Symlinks are mostly just "files" that direct to a directory or a file.

So, for example a symlink for a file at ~/a-file will have ~/a-file inside itself, along with information about being a symlink.

I don't know how hellwal read a symlinked file, most likely it just sees /path/to/original/file instead of the contents.

If you want to symlink something, symlink a directory, that way, you don't break anything.

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I don't exactly know what I am talking about. Just wrote what I believe is the case.

[Adevald]

This is an issue many pieces of software have.

Symlinks are mostly just "files" that direct to a directory or a file.

So, for example a symlink for a file at ~/a-file will have ~/a-file inside itself, along with information about being a symlink.

I don't know how hellwal read a symlinked file, most likely it just sees /path/to/original/file instead of the contents.

If you want to symlink something, symlink a directory, that way, you don't break anything.

I don't exactly know what I am talking about. Just wrote what I believe is the case.

Currently i have workaround like that. So it +- works with hyprland + nixos, but it still WIP, as an example it wont update terminal colors automatically (but waybar and alacritty is)

{ pkgs, ... }:
let
  tpl-path = ''~/.config/hellwal/templates/'';
  hypr-colors = ''
    $background = rgb(%%background%%)
    $foreground = rgb(%%foreground%%)

    $color0 = rgb(%%color0%%)
    $color1 = rgb(%%color1%%)
    $color2 = rgb(%%color2%%)
    $color3 = rgb(%%color3%%)
    $color4 = rgb(%%color4%%)
    $color5 = rgb(%%color5%%)
    $color6 = rgb(%%color6%%)
    $color7 = rgb(%%color7%%)
    $color8 = rgb(%%color8%%)
    $color9 = rgb(%%color9%%)
    $color10 = rgb(%%color10%%)
    $color11 = rgb(%%color11%%)
    $color12 = rgb(%%color12%%)
    $color13 = rgb(%%color13%%)
    $color14 = rgb(%%color14%%)
    $color15 = rgb(%%color15%%)
  '';
  waybar-colors = ''
    @define-color foreground #%%foreground%%;
    @define-color background #%%background%%;
    @define-color cursor #%%cursor%%;
    @define-color color0 #%%color0%%;
    @define-color color1 #%%color1%%;
    @define-color color2 #%%color2%%;
    @define-color color3 #%%color3%%;
    @define-color color4 #%%color4%%;
    @define-color color5 #%%color5%%;
    @define-color color6 #%%color6%%;
    @define-color color7 #%%color7%%;
    @define-color color8 #%%color8%%;
    @define-color color9 #%%color9%%;
    @define-color color10 #%%color10%%;
    @define-color color11 #%%color11%%;
    @define-color color12 #%%color12%%;
    @define-color color13 #%%color13%%;
    @define-color color14 #%%color14%%;
    @define-color color15 #%%color15%%;
  '';
  discord-colors = ''
    --background: #%% background.hex %%;
    --foreground: #%% foreground.hex %%;
    --cursor: #%% cursor.hex %%;
    --border: #%% border.hex %%;
    
    --color0: #%% color0.hex %%;
    --color1: #%% color1.hex %%;
    --color2: #%% color2.hex %%;
    --color3: #%% color3.hex %%;
    --color4: #%% color4.hex %%;
    --color5: #%% color5.hex %%;
    --color6: #%% color6.hex %%;
    --color7: #%% color7.hex %%;
    --color8: #%% color8.hex %%;
    --color9: #%% color9.hex %%;
    --color10: #%% color10.hex %%;
    --color11: #%% color11.hex %%;
    --color12: #%% color12.hex %%;
    --color13: #%% color13.hex %%;
    --color14: #%% color14.hex %%;
    --color15: #%% color15.hex %%;
  '';
  wofi-colors = ''
      window {
        margin: 0px;
        border: 1px solid #%%foreground.rgb%%;
        background-color: #%%background.rgb%%;
      }

      #input {
        margin: 5px;
        border: none;
        background-color: #%%color8.rgb%%;
      }

      #inner-box {
        margin: 5px;
        border: none;
        background-color: #%%background.rgb%%;
      }

      #outer-box {
        margin: 5px;
        border: none;
        background-color: #%%background.rgb%%;
      }

      #scroll {
        margin: 0px;
        border: none;
      }

      #text {
        margin: 5px;
        border: none;
        color: #ffffff;
      }

      #entry:selected {
        background-color: #%%color8.rgb%%;
      }
    '';
in {
  # Пишем шаблоны для хелвал
  # Всратый метод записывания рельных файлов никсом
  home.activation.copy-config = ''
    mkdir -p ~/.config/hellwal/templates/ ~/.config/hellwal/themes
    mkdir -p ~/.cache/hellwal
    cp -f ${pkgs.writeText "hyprland-colors.conf" "${hypr-colors}"} ${tpl-path}/hyprland-colors.conf;
    cp -f ${pkgs.writeText "waybar-colors.conf" "${waybar-colors}"} ${tpl-path}/waybar-colors.conf
  '';

  # Донастройка всего под helwal
  wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
    settings = {

      # Вот эта хрень кажись немного бесполезная.
      exec = [
        "sleep 1; hellwal -i ~/wp.jpg --bright-offset 0.4;"
      ];
    };
  };
}

[danihek]

Okay so idk if you already fixed your issues, still thanks for reporting it.
I used nixos with hellwal and everything was fine. hellwal.nix from my dots

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I even checked it now, I tried with folder symlink and file symlinks - everything works.

Can you provide error message, is it segfault or anything?

[Adevald]

Okay so idk if you already fixed your issues, still thanks for reporting it. I used nixos with hellwal and everything was fine. hellwal.nix from my dots

I even checked it now, I tried with folder symlink and file symlinks - everything works.

Can you provide error message, is it segfault or anything?

Hello, sorry for late.
Actually, nothing just happens. As if templates are not there.

/home/adevald/.config/hellwal/templates
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 adevald nixos-manager 109 авг 15 19:22 hyprland-colors.conf -> /nix/store/b5aww50gxzggicfiqhzmp6zcbx0b5w3n-home-manager-files/.config/hellwal/templates/hyprland-colors.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 adevald nixos-manager 106 авг 15 19:22 waybar-colors.css -> /nix/store/b5aww50gxzggicfiqhzmp6zcbx0b5w3n-home-manager-files/.config/hellwal/templates/waybar-colors.css

Cache just didnt generates in ~/.cache (for hyprland-confg as an example) nor applies to current opened terminals. But generates for rest of the files, so there is no error. Hellwal successfully generates colors from image but then just didnt do anything.

I tried to use same way to generate files.
This didnt works:

  home.file = {
    ".config/hellwal/templates/hyprland-colors.conf".text = ''${hypr-colors}'';
  };

This works:

  home.activation.copy-config = ''
    mkdir -p ~/.config/hellwal/templates/ ~/.config/hellwal/themes
    mkdir -p ~/.cache/hellwal
    cp -f ${pkgs.writeText "hyprland-colors.conf" "${hypr-colors}"} ${tpl-path}/hyprland-colors.conf;
    cp -f ${pkgs.writeText "waybar-colors.conf" "${waybar-colors}"} ${tpl-path}/waybar-colors.conf
  '';

[cphne]

Hi, i have the same issue where the templates are not read by hellwal if they are created via symlink.

Okay so idk if you already fixed your issues, still thanks for reporting it.
I used nixos with hellwal and everything was fine. hellwal.nix from my dots

I even checked it now, I tried with folder symlink and file symlinks - everything works.

Can you provide error message, is it segfault or anything?

I think this is not a nixos specific issue tho, i used gnu stow to link the templates and the behavior was the same.

Hello, sorry for late.
Actually, nothing just happens. As if templates are not there.

Can confirm, no error messages are reported. Neither in debug mode or normal verbosity configuration.