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hellwal mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install hellwal

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#hellwal

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/he/hellwal/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Fast, extensible color palette generator

Projektlinks

Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

hellwal

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

hellwal is a small color-palette generator for wallpaper-driven desktop theming. Its repository describes it as a Pywal-like generator that is faster and written in C, with templates, themes, JSON output, light and dark modes, and terminal color helpers.

The available authoritative history is thin but useful: the GitHub repository and release notes show a young project that quickly accumulated practical theming features after its first public release.

Projektgeschichte

The repository was created in November 2024. The first public release, v1.0.0, described hellwal as a pywal-inspired color palette generator with support for templates, themes, and command-line arguments.

Subsequent releases added cache support, JSON output, neon mode, preview flags, contrast checking, more templates, and fixes to parser and palette behavior. The README credits pywal as the inspiration.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project crossed from source builds into package-manager use early in its life. The README documents Homebrew and Nix installation, and the supplied package metadata also lists Homebrew and Nix packaging.

Its audience is the Unix desktop theming and 'rice' community: users who want one image or theme file to drive terminal, launcher, compositor, notification, editor, and shell color files.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `hellwal -i [image]` to generate a palette from a wallpaper image, or use `--theme` to apply a static palette. Generated templates are written under the user's cache directory, and theme files can live under `~/.config/hellwal/themes`.

The tool can emit JSON for scripts, write terminal color scripts, run a post-generation command, choose light or dark modes, adjust brightness and grayscale, and fill template variables such as `color0.hex`, `background.rgb`, and alpha values.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

hellwal is notable as a compact C entry in a space often occupied by Python scripts. That makes it attractive to packagers who want a fast, dependency-light theming utility with predictable build behavior.

It is also a good example of desktop theming tools becoming package-manager artifacts: templates, cache paths, shell completions, and example themes matter almost as much as the binary.

Zeitleiste

2024: Public GitHub repository created.
2024: v1.0.0 release published with templates, themes, and command-line options.
2024: v1.0.2 added palette caching under the user cache directory.
2025: v1.0.3 added JSON output and neon mode.
2025: v1.0.5 noted Homebrew packaging and additional templates, flags, and parser fixes.

Related projects

pywal is the direct inspiration credited by the README.
swww, Themecord, terminal color scripts, and theme collections appear in project examples or release notes.
Homebrew and Nix are the package-manager channels present in the supplied metadata.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`hellwal`	Executable	indexiertes Executable	Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-08-03

Manager-Version1.0.7

Manager aktualisiert

lokale Datenunbekannt

Upstreamnicht verfügbar

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:hellwal
Version	1.0.7
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/danihek/hellwal
Repository	https://github.com/danihek/hellwal
Bottle	nicht erfasst
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

hellwal

nix profile install nixpkgs#hellwal

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Hellwal

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/he/hellwal/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/hellwal.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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