scootbar theming
The bar follows the desktop: the profile’s look writes its colors,
and Stylix writes colors plus font when present. A value you set in
settings always wins — per key, never wholesale.
From a look
Section titled “From a look”look renders the example palette into the bar config (each leaf
yielding to a user value, and to Stylix where present):
| Look | Bar colors |
|---|---|
music-desk |
paper, ink and blue |
radial-burst |
plum, yellow and blue |
moonrise |
navy, cream and amber |
vinyl-sunset |
espresso, cream and orange |
Opt out per target while the rest follows the look, under the one
programs.scoot.desktop.theme.targets.<name>.enable namespace every
desktop piece uses (as with the lock screen).
From Stylix
Section titled “From Stylix”When config.lib.stylix exists and stylix.enable is on, settings
gets defaults from it: the six colors tokens from the base16 palette
(background base00, foreground base05, accent base0D, hover
base0D like the compositor’s focused ring, dim base03, urgent
base08), bar.font from stylix.fonts.sansSerif and bar.font-size
from stylix.fonts.sizes.desktop (points, converted at 4/3, clamped
1–256). The font is a file path: the bar has no fontconfig, so a
build step finds the regular face in the font package (DejaVuSans.ttf
for “DejaVu Sans”, Family-Regular.ttf for Noto or a Nerd Font).
Variable fonts, .ttc collections and odd namings are not resolved —
the bar then gets the plain default font rather than a failed build.
programs.scootbar.stylix.enable = false turns the defaults off with
Stylix present.
Precedence, highest first, per key: your settings value, then
Stylix’s, then the module’s plain default (bar.font as DejaVu Sans —
also what an unresolved Stylix font becomes). So
settings.colors.background = "#123456" replaces that one token and
keeps the other five. The bar’s own unthemed defaults stay Catppuccin
Mocha (background #1e1e2e, accent #f9e2af); only the Stylix default
moved accent to base0D blue, matching the compositor’s Stylix ring.
The six tokens, and how icons follow them (path icons tint from the theme; image icons keep their own colors), are in Colors and Icons.