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wal-telegram — Generate themes for Telegram based the colors generated by pywal/wal. More information: <https://git

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

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Problem

How to use the wal-telegram command: Generate themes for Telegram based the colors generated by pywal/wal. More information: <https://github.com/guillaumeboehm/wal-telegram>.

Solution

wal-telegram — Generate themes for Telegram based the colors generated by pywal/wal. More information: <https://github.com/guillaumeboehm/wal-telegram>.

Generate with wal's palette and the current wallpaper (feh only):

wal-telegram

Generate with wal's palette and a specified background image:

wal-telegram --background={{path/to/image}}

Generate with wal's palette and a colored background based on the palette:

wal-telegram --tiled

Apply a gaussian blur on the background image:

wal-telegram -g

Specify a location for the generated theme (default is $XDG_CACHE_HOME/wal-telegram or ~/.cache/wal-telegram):

wal-telegram --destination={{path/to/destination}}

Restart the telegram app after generation:

wal-telegram --restart

Code Snippets

Generate with wal's palette and the current wallpaper (feh only)

wal-telegram

Generate with wal's palette and a specified background image

wal-telegram --background={{path/to/image}}

Generate with wal's palette and a colored background based on the palette

wal-telegram --tiled

Apply a gaussian blur on the background image

wal-telegram -g

Specify a location for the generated theme (default is `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/wal-telegram` or `~/.cache/wal-telegram`)

wal-telegram --destination={{path/to/destination}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/wal-telegram

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