Theming

DriftWM offers extensive theming options through ~/.config/driftwm/config.toml. This page documents the key theming settings used in this setup.

🖼️ Wallpaper

This setup uses a custom wallpaper with the built-in wallpaper background type: ```toml [background] type = "wallpaper" path = "/home/wgparch/Pictures/ALNW/Bluespaceship.jpg"

Available Background Types

default — Built-in dot-grid pattern
shader — Procedural GLSL shader (scrolls with canvas)
tile — Tiled image with optional mirror-fold
wallpaper — Single image stretched to canvas
none — No built-in background (use swaybg/swww instead)

🎨 Decorations Window chrome is configured in the [decorations] section:

[decorations]

bg_color = "#303030" # Title bar background

fg_color = "#FFFFFF" # Title text color

corner_radius = 10 # Rounded corners

shadow = true # Drop shadow

border_width = 0 # Border thickness

border_color = "#303030" # Unfocused border

border_color_focused = "#303030" # Focused border

Decoration Modes

client — Client draws its own titlebar (CSD, default)
server — DriftWM draws the titlebar (SSD)
minimal — No titlebar, just shadow/corners/border
none — No chrome at all

✨ Effects Enable blur and other visual effects: [effects] blur_radius = 2 # Kawase blur passes blur_strength = 1.1 # Per-pass spread animate_blur_fps = 20 # Blur refresh rate

🎯 Rofi Theme The application launcher uses a custom Rofi theme:

[keybindings] "mod+d" = "exec rofi -show drun -theme /usr/share/rofi/themes/fancy.rasi"

🪟 Per-Window Rules Apply custom theming to specific applications: [[window_rules]] app_id = "kitty" opacity = 0.85 blur = true

[[window_rules]] app_id = "firefox" corner_radius = 15 border_width = 2 border_color_focused = "#4a90e2"

🔄 Live Reloading DriftWM supports live config reloading. After editing config.toml: driftwm msg reload