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# Generating themes
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The spmenu build script `spmenu_make` has a `theme` feature. As the name
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implies, this script generates a theme. Specifically it generates a theme from
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18 different colors.
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Creating a color list is the first step. This can be any file. For this article
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we're going to assume the file is `./colors`. In there you want to set 18
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different colors. The first 16 are going to be set in the same order you set
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terminal colors. For the two last colors, color #17 is the foreground color and
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color #18 is the background color. Note that colors will be reused.
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Now that we have a color list, we can start generating a theme. To do this, run
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`scripts/spmenu_make theme ./colors` where obviously colors is the color list.
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This will output directly to standard output, so you may want to redirect this
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into a file. For testing, I usually do something like `scripts/spmenu_make
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theme ./colors > scheme && spmenu_test -tm ./scheme`.
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It should be noted that the script doesn't provide an easy way to move around
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colors just yet, so it is assumed that you have a basic level of shell
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scripting knowledge here if you want to do that. If colors are incorrectly
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defined in your color list, the color will be set to #000000 as a default.
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Unless #000000 is part of your colorscheme, this is a good indication something
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is wrong.
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Now that we have a proper theme, we can use it. If you're using
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[spmenuify](https://git.speedie.site/speedie/spmenuify) you can simply choose
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'Install' and navigate to the scheme you output.
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