Featured Image: spotify-tui running Nord Dark theme in Alacritty with transparency enabled.
I was listening to music on Spotify the other day, except I was using the spotify-tui client on Fedora. However, something minor bothered me about my setup on said app: The elapsed time in the center of the progress bar would become unreadable if I used my default Alacritty theme with Nord colors.
I started to search around and see if I could find an existing Nord theme for spotify-tui to fix this, but found nothing of the sort. Sure, there’s a Dracula theme for it on their site as expected, and someone even made a Solarized Light theme for it, but I didn’t find a Nord theme anywhere.
Though I guess you could say the post about Solarized Light’s spotify-tui theme inspired me with an idea: Why not make my own Nord theme?
So that’s exactly what I did. Doing what that blog post said, I referenced the README on the spotify-tui Github and figured out how to solve the minor quirk I was having with the time not being visible. Plus, I was able to get more of the Nord Aurora colors implemented here and there.
How Do I Try That Out?
Assuming you already have spotify-tui set up and running, all you need to do is create .config/spotify-tui/config.yml if it doesn’t exist already. Then add this to the file:
theme:
active: "180, 142, 173"
banner: "180, 142, 173"
error_border: "191, 97, 106"
error_text: "216, 222, 233"
hint: "191, 97, 106"
hovered: "235, 203, 139"
inactive: "216, 222, 233"
playbar_background: "67, 76, 94"
playbar_progress: "216, 222, 233"
playbar_progress_text: "129, 161, 193"
playbar_text: "216, 222, 233"
selected: "143, 188, 187"
text: "236, 239, 244"
header: "208, 135, 112"Save your file, then reload spotify-tui. You should see the changes take effect. Enjoy your streamlined Spotify listening experience with a slightly better theme!
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