README.md

solarizedtoggle

A set of files and a script to toggle solarized dark/light.

The script simply creates symliks, or copies files to the right places whenever one toggles from light to dark or vice versa. I use urxvt, vim, zathura and mutt, so that's what it changes; but extending it to other applications is, of course, as trivial as the script itself.

Xresources-light is simply the solarized Xresources, modified so as to have the light version of the colour scheme. It remains, thus, under the license that Ethan Schoonover has chosen for solarized. All the other files are public domain.

It works, although some things puzzle me:

• There is no need to change colors.muttrc when one toggles. In fact, if you change it, it looks weird.
• If urxvt is set to dark, background in .vimrc has to be set to light and vice versa.

Now, things you need to do for this to work:

• Delete all colour information from .Xresources and add a line such as

  #include "/path/to/Xsolarized"

where Xsolarized is the symlink created in lines 11 and 17 of solarizedtoggle

• Create a file solarizedstatus with the single string "dark" ("light"), and, if you solarize vim, a file solarizedstatusforvim with the string "light" ("dark")

• If you solarize vim, substitute the

  set background = light/dark

line by

let &background = readfile('/home/manolo/Scripts/solarizedtoggle/solarizedstatus', '', 1)[0]

That's it, I think.