From: Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:25:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: awesome: load theme from env variable
X-Git-Url: https://git.rmz.io/dotfiles.git/commitdiff_plain/3b4a2c49daaca5827b8de8ef54b202ff88a91cc4?ds=sidebyside

awesome: load theme from env variable
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diff --git a/awesome/rc.lua b/awesome/rc.lua
index 6ce1935..6e139d3 100644
--- a/awesome/rc.lua
+++ b/awesome/rc.lua
@@ -34,7 +34,14 @@ end
 
 -- Variable definitions {{{1
 -- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
-beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_dir("config").."/themes/mlp/theme.lua")
+local gfs = require("gears.filesystem")
+local theme = os.getenv("THEME")
+local theme_path = gfs.get_dir("config").."/themes/"..theme.."/theme.lua"
+
+if not beautiful.init(theme_path) then
+    -- we failed to load the theme, load default instead
+    beautiful.init(gfs.get_themes_dir() .. "default/theme.lua")
+end
 
 -- This is used later as the default terminal to run.
 terminal = os.getenv("TERMINAL") or "xterm"