Pywal doesn't change background of alacritty

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I use alacritty as a terminal and all colors in alacritty are correctly sourced when I run wal, except for the background which stays the same color throughout. Running cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences also doesn’t change the background. I’m using i3 as window manager and have no color settings in my alacritty config. Is this an issue from pywal or an issue from alacritty?

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zBumblBcommented, Jul 23, 2021

Terminal solution doesn’t work for me. Instead I just created a new template and imported it. Add

import:
  - ~/.cache/wal/colors-alacritty.yml

to your alacritty.yml and create a new template file ~/.config/wal/templates/colors-alacritty.yml. Here’s my template file. The only thing is, if you omit alpha when setting a new colorscheme, the terminal background will be transparent.

background_opacity: 0.{alpha}

# Colors (Gruvbox dark)
colors:
  primary:
    background:        '{background}'
    foreground:        '{foreground}'
  cursor:
    text:   CellForeground
    cursor: '{cursor}'
  bright:
    black:   '{color0}'
    red:     '{color1}'
    green:   '{color2}'
    yellow:  '{color3}'
    blue:    '{color4}'
    magenta: '{color5}'
    cyan:    '{color6}'
    white:   '{color7}'
  normal:
    black:   '{color8}'
    red:     '{color9}'
    green:   '{color10}'
    yellow:  '{color11}'
    blue:    '{color12}'
    magenta: '{color13}'
    cyan:    '{color14}'
    white:   '{color15}'

I created a pull request #611

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nipunravisaracommented, Dec 9, 2021

Terminal solution doesn’t work for me. Instead I just created a new template and imported it. Add
import:
  - ~/.cache/wal/colors-alacritty.yml
to your alacritty.yml and create a new template file ~/.config/wal/templates/colors-alacritty.yml. Here’s my template file. The only thing is, if you omit alpha when setting a new colorscheme, the terminal background will be transparent.
background_opacity: 0.{alpha}

# Colors (Gruvbox dark)
colors:
  primary:
    background:        '{background}'
    foreground:        '{foreground}'
  cursor:
    text:   CellForeground
    cursor: '{cursor}'
  bright:
    black:   '{color0}'
    red:     '{color1}'
    green:   '{color2}'
    yellow:  '{color3}'
    blue:    '{color4}'
    magenta: '{color5}'
    cyan:    '{color6}'
    white:   '{color7}'
  normal:
    black:   '{color8}'
    red:     '{color9}'
    green:   '{color10}'
    yellow:  '{color11}'
    blue:    '{color12}'
    magenta: '{color13}'
    cyan:    '{color14}'
    white:   '{color15}'
I created a pull request #611
Hey can you tell me how to create template , add transparency and add to alacritty. Please can you explain properly. I am new to alacritty and dont know how can i import from external file.

It’s in pywal documentation https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal/wiki/User-Template-Files

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