Yin-Yang

Auto Night-mode for Linux, it supports popular Desktops like KDE, Gnome, Budgie and also themes your favourite editors like VSCode or Atom.

You might also want to take a look at our discussions page, where we talk about the future of the app and other cool stuff!

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Features

• Changes your themes at certain times or sunrise and sunset
• Supported Desktops:
  • Gnome
  • Budgie
  • KDE Plasma
• Supported applications:
  • VSCode, Atom, gedit
  • Firefox & Brave
  • Kvantum
  • Konsole
  • OnlyOffice
  • and more...
• Miscellaneous:
  • Wallpaper change
  • Notifications on theme change
  • Play a sound
  • Ability to run custom scripts

To see planned features and the development status, visit the project status page.

Installation

Arch-based distributions

Yin-Yang can be downloaded from AUR as yin-yang package.

Source

Yin-Yang depends on python-systemd and pyside6 from pypi. python-systemd requires you have installed the systemd-headers from your package manager.

For CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora:

sudo dnf install gcc systemd-devel python3-devel

For Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsystemd-dev gcc pkg-config python3-dev

Then you can install Yin-Yang in a python virtual environment:

git clone https://github.com/oskarsh/Yin-Yang && cd Yin-Yang
## Create virtual environment for pypi packages
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
# Install pip requirements
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# Install Yin-Yang
./scripts/install.sh

Documentation

Want to help out? Check out the wiki to learn how to contribute translations, plugins and more!

Related or similar projects

• Auto dark mode for Windows: https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode
• Auto dark mode extension for Gnome: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2236/night-theme-switcher/
• Auto dark mode for Jetbrains IDEs: https://github.com/weisJ/auto-dark-mode
• Sync dark mode with KDEs night color: https://github.com/adrium/knightadjuster
• darkman: https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman
• In Firefox, you can use the system theme to sync Firefox itself and supported applications with the theme of the system. When you use dark reader, you can enable the system color automation.

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