spmenu-wiki/pages/User themes.md

User themes

spmenu has since version 0.3 supported profiles. Profiles allow the user to bring up a list of themes (or options in general) and override options on-the-fly. This in itself is done through a shell script called spmenu_profile bundled with spmenu. This script interacts with spmenu. If you press Ctrl+Shift+p with the default configuration, a list of profiles should pop up. By default you likely have none, and that's maybe also why you're here.

This wiki article is meant to be a list of themes and profiles for spmenu. Users may edit this article to add their own profiles with credit given of course, and users may download others' profiles to use with spmenu.

There are two different types. There are themes and profiles. Themes should either be copied to ~/.config/spmenu/theme.conf either manually or by using a theme manager. Profiles are in .Xresources syntax and should be placed in ~/.config/spmenu/profiles/ for the profile list to find it. Profiles are only compatible with spmenu 1.0 and earlier and is considered a legacy format, while themes are compatible with spmenu 1.1 and later.

Tip: Use Ctrl+f to search through the page.

Rules for editors

• Must be licensed under a free (as in freedom) license.
• No duplicates, we don't need multiple versions of Nord for example.
• Please try to use stable hosting if possible for links. If this is not possible, consider emailing me so I can host it on my site.
• Outdated profiles may be removed if necessary. Please try to maintain it, if you don't have time to do so a disclaimer would be nice.

Official themes

NOTE: Themes are only compatible with spmenu 1.1 and later. Users of 1.0 and earlier should use the older profiles feature.

• Arc Dark
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Arc Dark theme into spmenu.

• Catppuccin
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Catppuccin theme into spmenu which all furries seem to like.

• Cyberpunk Neon
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Cyberpunk Neon colorscheme into spmenu. This was partially taken from the st patch, credit where credit is due.

• Doom One
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Doom One colorscheme into spmenu. For those of you that like DistroTube's dmenu, this should get you close to that look.

• Dracula
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Dracula colorscheme into spmenu.

• Gruvbox (Dark)

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Gruvbox Dark colorscheme into spmenu.

• Disable global colors

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile disables global colors, meaning programs like Pywal will not function with spmenu. This is nice if you want to use Pywal everywhere except spmenu.

• Nord
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Nord colorscheme into spmenu.

• Solarized (Dark)
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Solarized colorscheme into spmenu. Specifically the 'Dark' variant.

• Solarized (Light)
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Solarized colorscheme into spmenu. Specifically the 'Light' variant.

• Tokyo Night

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Tokyo Night colorscheme into spmenu, ported from the VS Code theme.

• dmenu

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This config tries to match dmenu as closely as possible, even stripping away spmenu only features to an extent.

• Default

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This config is the default configuration for spmenu. This is automatically installed to /usr/share/spmenu/spmenu.conf so you usually don't need a copy of this.

Official profiles

NOTE: Profiles are only compatible with spmenu 1.0 and earlier. Users of 1.1 and later should use the newer theme.conf instead, along with optionally a theme manager.

• Arc Dark
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Arc Dark theme into spmenu.

• Catppuccin
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Catppuccin theme into spmenu which all furries seem to like.

• Cyberpunk Neon
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Cyberpunk Neon colorscheme into spmenu. This was partially taken from the st patch, credit where credit is due.

• Doom One
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Doom One colorscheme into spmenu. For those of you that like DistroTube's dmenu, this should get you close to that look.

• Dracula
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Dracula colorscheme into spmenu.

• Gruvbox (Dark)

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Gruvbox Dark colorscheme into spmenu.

• Disable global colors

  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile disables global colors, meaning programs like Pywal will not function with spmenu. This is nice if you want to use Pywal everywhere except spmenu.

• Nord
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Nord colorscheme into spmenu.

• Solarized (Dark)
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Solarized colorscheme into spmenu. Specifically the 'Dark' variant.

• Solarized (Light)
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Solarized colorscheme into spmenu. Specifically the 'Light' variant.

• Tokyo Night
  • Author: speedie (speedie@speedie.site)
  • This profile implements the Tokyo Night colorscheme into spmenu, ported from the VS Code theme.

User-submitted profiles

User-submitted config files