#The Problem
In my ongoing quest to incorporate pywal’s colors into all my applications, I came across a bug in suckless terminal, AKA st.
pywal keeps track of 16 terminal colors in addition to an extra, special color known as background.
However, by default, st uses terminal color 0 as the background color. You may not even notice a difference– in fact, for some of builtin pywal colorschemes, terminal color 0 and background are equivalent.
#st
Inside the source code of st is the culprit of this problem:
st/config.h
c
/*
* Default colors (colorname index)
* foreground, background, cursor, reverse cursor
*/
unsigned int defaultfg = 7;
unsigned int defaultbg = 0;
defaultbg is set to terminal color 0. However, pywal sets the background value to index 232:
pywal/sequences.py
python
# Special colors.
# Source: https://goo.gl/KcoQgP
# 10 = foreground, 11 = background, 12 = cursor foregound
# 13 = mouse foreground, 708 = background border color.
sequences.extend([
set_special(10, colors["special"]["foreground"], "g"),
set_special(11, colors["special"]["background"], "h", alpha),
set_special(12, colors["special"]["cursor"], "l"),
set_special(13, colors["special"]["foreground"], "l"),
set_special(17, colors["special"]["foreground"], "l"),
set_special(19, colors["special"]["background"], "l"),
set_color(232, colors["special"]["background"]),
set_color(256, colors["special"]["foreground"])
])
Therefor, in order to fix the mismatch, simply change defaultbg in st/config.h to 232.
