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+title: "Customizing a Doom Emacs Theme"
+description: "How to create your own Doom Emacs theme"
+date: 2022-12-02T21:33:31+05:30
+---
+
+Creating your theme/modifying an existing one, or overriding some faces (globally) in Emacs, especially Doom Emacs is
+really easy once you understand how to do it... but it wasn't very easy to *understand* how to do it. Most likely
+I was doing something wrong, or maybe it's just because I don't fully know how lisp or emacs works that's why it took me long
+but I spent a good part of my evening trying to make even small changes to work.
+
+So, I have created this short tutorial to leave me (and others having problems) some notes on how to modify a Doom Emacs theme.
+I'm using Doom Emacs which comes with the doom-themes packages doing some basic setup so we only need to define some variables and it 
+automatically applies other faces and stuff, and I'm pretty sure doom-themes can be installed on regular Emacs.
+
+## Overriding faces
+
+Each element in an emacs buffer has a "face" which defines its foreground/background color, font styling, etc.
+You can do `M-x RET` `describe-char` or `describe-face` to get the face of the area under the cursor, or to get a
+list of all the available faces (which is very long)
+
+The `custom-set-faces!` macro (or `custom-set-faces` for Emacs users) can be used to customize any face:
+
+``` lisp
+(custom-set-faces!
+  '(default :background "#100b13")
+  '(cursor :background "#0ec685" :foreground)
+  '(line-number :slant normal :background "#100b13")
+  '(line-number-current-line :slant normal :background "#21242b"))
+```
+
+You can add something like this to your `~/.doom.d/config.el`
+
+## Using a doom theme as a template
+
+Another way to modify your Doom theme is to use an existing theme as a template (or, starting from bottom up!)
+and modifying it.
+
+### How to modify an existing theme:
+
+1. Go to [this page](https://github.com/doomemacs/themes) and choose any theme you like, and download the raw file into
+`~/.doom.d/themes/<theme-name>-theme.el`. The theme name can be anything, but make sure it ends with "-theme.el" 
+or Doom won't recognise it as a theme.
+
+2. Open the theme in your favourite text editor (I wonder which one it is) and edit the line that says `(def-doom-theme <theme-name>`
+and replace `<theme-name>` with any name you like, make sure not to use the original name (or the name of any other theme that already exists on your system) or it would create a clash. 
+Now, edit the theme to your liking and you're good to go!
+
+3. Open a new Doom Emacs frame and enter `SPC h t t` and select your new theme!
+
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+---
+title: "Distributing a GTK App for Windows"
+date: 2023-01-02T18:01:23+05:30
+---
+
+# Setting up msys2
+
+## Installation using chocolatey
+
+You need to install msys2 before you can start developing on windows. 
+The easiest way to set it up is to use the [chocolatey package manager](https://chocolatey.org).
+
+If you don't already have choco installed, just follow the installation instructions on <https://chocolatey.org/install> then run
+
+``` fish
+choco install msys2
+```
+
+After msys2 is set up, open a new (non-administrator) powershell window, and in that run msys2
+
+## Installing necessary packages
+
+``` fish
+sudo pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain base-devel glib2-devel
+```
+
+Refer to the installation instructions on GTK's website on which other packages you might need.
+I believe this is enough to get started.
+
+# Compiling your app
+
+Now, clone your project's repository and build the app as you normally would on linux and place the executable in the `bin` 
+directory inside your installation directory. Use the ldd command (`ldd bin/MyApp.exe`) to list the necessary DLLs required 
+by your app and copy all the DLLs starting with `"/mingw"` to the `bin` directory. This script automatically does that:
+
+``` fish
+ldd bin/MyApp.exe | grep '\/mingw.*\.dll' -o | xargs -I{} cp "{}" ./bin
+```
+
+Credit goes to <https://stackoverflow.com/a/50130668>; Replace MyApp.exe with your executable's name.
+
+# Adding other required files
+
+## Icon Theme
+
+Create a directory for the icon theme with `mkdir -p ./share/icons`, and download the hicolor (mandatory) and another icon pack (I'll be using Adwaita) 
+and place both files into `share/icons`.
+
+Or just copy from your mingw installation
+
+``` fish
+cp /mingw64/share/icons/* -r share/icons/
+```
+
+## GLib Schemas
+
+Settings schemas need to be compiled in order for the app to work. The quickest way is to just copy the default ones from your mingw installation.
+In a real-world scenaro you might want to edit these files and delete any irrelevant settings but just for testing I don't care.
+
+``` fish
+mkdir -p share/glib-2.0/schemas
+cp /mingw64/share/glib-2.0/schemas/* share/glib-2.0/schemas/
+glib-compile-schemas.exe share/glib-2.0/schemas/
+```
+
+## Pixbuf loaders
+
+GTK needs Pixbuf loaders to be able to load images, else it will crash. Just copy the loaders from your mingw installation:
+
+``` fish
+cp /mingw64/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -r lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
+```
+
+# Finishing up
+
+Check that your app runs, and either zip the file or create a microsoft installer to distribute the app!