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# viscolourchanger
## Intro
viscolourchanger is a program to dynamically change the colourscheme used by [cli-visualizer](https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer) (herein referred to as 'vis'), as generated by [pywal](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal).
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##Setup and Configuration
###Initial Setup
To make vis recognise the generated colour scheme, it is necessary to add the line
> colors.scheme=wal
to the vis config file located at $HOME/.config/vis.config.
(It is also helpful to add the line
>audio.stereo.enabled=false
in order to see a broader range of colours in the base vis config, but this is just personal taste and far more complex configurations are possible.)
###Further Suggestions
That is all there is to viscolourchanger itself, and in absence of something further, pywal and viscolourchanger run separately. However, it is useful to make a wrapper for pywal. A simple wrapper which I have written is located [here](https://git.lynnesbian.space/petra-fied/viscolourchanger/src/branch/master/wal), and will allow for on-the-fly colour changes as pywal is run.
![program in action (the jitters here are an artifact of ffmpeg)](video.gif)

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#!/bin/bash
# this wrapper should go in your /usr/local/bin or higher in order to supercede the default "wal" command.
/usr/bin/wal $@
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