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Slatewave for btop

A Slatewave .theme for btop — slate dashboard, teal/amber/rose graphs.

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About this theme

btop reads .theme files from ~/.config/btop/themes — Slatewave for btop maps every meter and graph onto a single teal-300 → amber-400 → rose-400 ramp, slate-600 box outlines, slate-700 selection, and teal-300 highlights, so the dashboard shares the same semantic vocabulary as the rest of the family.

Slatewave for btop is a single .theme file — the format btop reads from ~/.config/btop/themes. Every meter, graph, and gradient (CPU, temperature, memory, network throughput, process activity) maps onto the same three-stop ramp:

teal-300 → amber-400 → rose-400 — low / cool / idle → high / hot / saturated.

Read it as: more rose = more activity. The same ramp drives temp, cpu, memory used, network, and the process box CPU column, so a glance across panels gives you the same semantic reading.

Box outlines and dividers are slate-600, panel labels and keyboard shortcuts are teal-300, the active row in the process list highlights slate-700 / teal-300 — the same surface vocabulary the editor and terminal ports use.

main_bg is left empty so btop inherits the terminal background. If you want opaque slate panels, edit main_bg = "#1e293b" in your local copy and re-install — btop.conf has a theme_background toggle as well, set it to false for transparency or true for the filled slate look.

Verify

Launch btop and confirm the meters render teal → amber → rose, panel labels are teal-300, and box outlines are slate-600.

Install

Don't have the CLI yet? Install the Slatewave CLI →

  • Slatewave CLI

    Install with the Slatewave family CLI — one command, every theme.

                          slatewave install btop

  • curl

    Drop slatewave.theme into btop's user themes directory. Requires btop ≥ 1.2 for the full set of theme keys.

                          mkdir -p ~/.config/btop/themes && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/btop-slatewave/main/slatewave.theme -o ~/.config/btop/themes/slatewave.theme

  • Clone

    Clone the repo and symlink the theme file in — btop only scans the top level of its themes dir.

    1. git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/btop-slatewave.git ~/.config/btop/btop-slatewave
    2. ln -sf ~/.config/btop/btop-slatewave/slatewave.theme ~/.config/btop/themes/slatewave.theme

  • Activate

    btop reads the active theme name from ~/.config/btop/btop.conf — edit color_theme directly, or pick "slatewave" in btop's Options menu (Esc → Options).

                          sed -i.bak 's/^color_theme = .*/color_theme = "slatewave"/' ~/.config/btop/btop.conf

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