Dark Mode Daemon

Run scripts when the system color scheme changes between light and dark.

Getting Started

The easiest way is to download and run the official installation script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/niclasvaneyk/dark-mode-daemon/releases/latest/download/dark-mode-daemon-installer.sh | sh

Then you can run the watch process by running

dark-mode-daemon

This won't do much, since you probably haven't set up any scripts yet. Dark Mode Daemon runs every executable file in ~/.config/dark-mode-daemon/scripts/ and sets the DMD_COLOR_MODE environment variable to either light or dark. This lets you adjust configuration files, other environment variables, or whatever else you can come up with. Head over to the list of recipes for inspiration. Examples include adding automatic color adjustments for Alacritty, Helix, Fish, and more.

You likely want to have Dark Mode Daemon launch in the background when you log into your user. There are many solutions to this, but we've prepared a builtin solution that should work for most platforms

dark-mode-daemon autostart setup

If you are interested in how this or the color mode detection works, have a look at our behind the scenes documentation.