How to switch your entire Hyprland rice with one command
Use Gtheme to switch your whole Hyprland rice with one command. gtheme desktop apply hypr --theme tokyonight repaints your terminal, status bar, editor, launcher, and wallpaper together in a single pass. 350+ curated themes, any Hyprland setup, one invocation.
*Switch your entire Hyprland rice with one command by using Gtheme, an open-source theme manager for NIX. Instead of hand-editing your Hyprland config, Waybar, terminal, editor, and wallpaper one file at a time, Gtheme applies a complete theme across all of them in a single pass:
$ gtheme desktop apply hypr --theme tokyonight
✓ repainted 42 targets in 128msThat one command reskins the whole desktop: window manager colors, bar, launcher, terminal palette, editor scheme, and wallpaper, all in sync. It is written in Rust, free (MIT/Apache-2.0), and ships with 350+ curated themes and matching wallpapers.
Why a one-command switch matters on Hyprland
Ricing Hyprland the manual way means touching a dozen files in as many syntaxes. Your Hyprland config sets the compositor colors. Waybar has its own CSS. Rofi, wofi, or fuzzel need their theme. Kitty, Alacritty, and foot want a palette. Neovim or VS Code a colorscheme. And your wallpaper is yet another file. Miss one and your rice splits into two identities: bar says Nord, editor is still Gruvbox.
Gtheme collapses that into one verb. You define your desktop once, then any theme from the library repaints every managed target in a single pass, in well under a second.
Your config, before and after Gtheme
# hyprland.conf, one color set
general {
col.active_border = rgba(7aa2f7ee)
col.inactive_border = rgba(15161eee)
}
# now change every hex by hand to re-theme# hyprland.pattern, colors resolved per theme
general {
col.active_border = rgba({{accent}}ee)
col.inactive_border = rgba({{base00}}ee)
}
# one apply swaps every value across every appApply a new theme and every hex updates everywhere at once, no find-and-replace, no missed files.
What Gtheme manages on Hyprland
| Surface | What changes |
|---|---|
| Window manager | Hyprland colors and animation-consistent accents |
| Status bar | Waybar (or Polybar) regen with theme colors |
| Launcher | Rofi, wofi, or fuzzel themed |
| Terminal | Kitty, Alacritty, foot palette |
| Editor | Neovim, Helix, VS Code colorscheme |
| Wallpaper | A matching wallpaper from the library, swapped automatically |
A typical pass touches 42 targets and finishes in 128ms.
Which desktops are available
Gtheme ships ready-made Hyprland desktops you can apply directly: the modern hypr desktop and the Material-You caelestia shell, both for Hyprland. Or point Gtheme at your own setup, define the pattern once, and get the same one-command switching across your own ricing.
Honest edges
Gtheme is a theme manager, not a drop-in copy of a specific dotfiles repo. If your rice is a heavily hand-tuned set of scripts, the work is in the one-time port: expressing your config as patterns. The payoff is that from then on, switching your entire Hyprland rice is a single command, and the same themes follow you to any other *NIX desktop Gtheme supports.
FAQ
Do I need to rewrite my Hyprland config to use Gtheme?
You port your config once into Gtheme patterns (or start from a ready-made desktop like hypr). After that, every theme swap is one command.
How many themes can I switch between? 350+ curated themes and matching wallpapers, all applied the same way.
Does Gtheme change the whole rice or just the wallpaper? The whole desktop: WM colors, bar, launcher, terminal, editor, and wallpaper, in a single pass.