papirus-folders-cycle

Changes Papirus folder colors every X seconds. With selective colors and shuffle.

^{(speed only for illustrative purposes)}

This program is based on and requires previous installation of the great papirus-folders.

Installation

Clone this entire project, enter its folder and run install.sh:

$ git clone https://github.com/fluoroom/papirus-folders-cycle.git
$ cd papirus-folders-cycle
$ ./install.sh

Usage

Once installed, the CLI is available:

$ ps-fc-cli help
Papirus Folders Cycle CLI (ps-fc-cli) has this available commands:
help / --help / -h   Show this help.
enable               Enables cycling (from next log on).
disable              Stops cycling and removes autostart on log on.
uninstall            Uninstalls Papirus Folders Cycle and CLI is self-destroyed forever.
Error 404:           This happens when i don't find the icon theme's folder in ~/.icons/, please install icons there as i can't (and shouldn't) have root access to read /usr/share/icons/.

Edit your config file (~/.ps-folders-cycle), here's an example:

#!/usr/bin/bash
changeEvery=300;     # seconds | program won't accept less than 10,
                     # and recommended is 60 or higher
theme=Papirus        # change if you're using Papirus-Dark or other icon theme.
                     # Use quotes ("") if name has spaces.
shuffleCycle=false   # (true | false) activate random order
shuffleStart=true    # (true | false) start from random color,
                     # continue in order (if not shuffling).
startupNotif=true    # (true | false) notify that program was started
colorNotif=true      # (true | false) notify when color changed

#Enter colors separated by spaces or new lines.
#Arrange in desired order of cycling.
#Check available colors on https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders

colors=(black bluegrey brown cyan green indigo nordic
palebrown pinkteal white yellow blue breeze carmine
deeporange grey magenta orange paleorange red violet yaru)