Dark Mode Kitty and Neovim Using OSX's Toggle

I've been seeking a good toggle for dark/light terminals for a long time.

I have been using a dodgy environment variable… and after fooling around with the OSX dark/light toggle using an Alfred workflow I realized that I pretty much either want the high contrast light or a lower contrast dark across the whole computer.

After googling some stack overflow questions, I found a quick snippet that checks to see whether dark mode is enabled... later I found a better way using defaults read -g AppleInterfaceStyle, but it returns either "Dark" or an error… some more googling revealed that I can use 2>/dev/null to dump the error to nothingness and just match on "Dark". It's much faster than the javascript method I was using.

I just put an alias in a .zshenv file so that it's loaded and usable by non-interactive shells. I then check it in my .zshrc and send a message to Kitty (my terminal of choice at the moment) to load the right theme.

It doesn't update automatically, but it's close enough.

You can see the changes here.


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Changelog
  • 2022-06-08 11:31:29 -0500
    Rename articles

  • 2020-06-18 14:26:02 -0500
    Move everything to CST

    Don't know why I didn't do that before. It caused _no_ end of
    problems.

  • 2019-11-14 19:33:21 -0600
    Auditing the tags in the site...

    Many removed, cleaned up, or renamed.

    Tags with only one child got yanked.

  • 2019-07-30 12:06:04 -0500
    Update check method

  • 2019-07-30 10:21:50 -0500
    New Post: Kitty/Neovim dark mode