Aether is a visual theming application centred on generating coordinated Linux desktop themes from wallpapers.
It is closely associated with Omarchy, but its palette generation and template system can also be used as part of other Linux setups. Aether combines colour extraction, wallpaper management and application theming in one interface, providing substantially more control than a simple wallpaper-to-palette converter.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generates 16-colour ANSI palettes from wallpaper images.
- Offers several colour extraction approaches together with light and dark variants.
- Provides extensive controls for refining generated colours and overriding individual values.
- Supports local wallpapers as well as browsing and collecting images from online sources.
- Accepts wallpapers by drag and drop and can work with wallpaper collections hosted on GitHub.
- Provides animated wallpaper support and image editing tools with filters and presets.
- Includes a library of built-in themes and support for importing Base16 schemes.
- Can save complete configurations as reusable theme blueprints.
- Generates themes for terminals, editors, status bars, window-manager components and other applications.
- Can select installed icon themes as part of a coordinated desktop setup.
- Supports custom templates, application-specific overrides and reload hooks.
- Provides scripting and command-line facilities for automated workflows.
Website: github.com/omacom/aether
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Developer: Bjarne Overli
License: MIT License
Aether is written in Go and TypeScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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