Automatic theme switching?

[barksten]

I have macOS configured to change to dark mode at night (auto).
I've set set -g @rose_pine_variant 'dawn' in my tmux.conf.
I understand that you can't set variant to auto and have tmux autodetect the screen mode as you can in Ex. Wezterm.
I did however expect that I could change variant using command mode ( C-b : ) but It doesn't work for me.
How do I change it?

[mrs4ndman]

I mean, it COULD be done with environment variables. The thing is, the theme wasn't created with hot-reload between variants, so I would neeed to test out ways to make it reload itself 🤔

You can maybe unset the option in you .tmux.conf and have a shell script that runs on shell startup the command ↓

tmux set -g @rose_pine_variant '<whatever variant>'
tmux source ~/.tmux.conf

This sorta works :)

[mrs4ndman]

A bit of a duplicate of #18 , will be closing that one in favor of this one.

[mvllow]

This seems possible when using the Rosé Pine theme in the terminal, e.g. instead of using "love" we would use "red" to match the terminal colour name. Not sure of the complexity that might add, though.

Edit for clarity: it would be up to the user to have automatic terminal theme switching is quite simple in newer terminals at least. E.g. in Ghostty:

theme = dark:Rosé Pine,light:Rosé Pine Dawn