hx complains that theme can't be found

[dkragen]

Summary

Sounds ridiculous. But irrespective of whether I use a relative or a full path, whether I use "$HOME"/.config/helix/themes/theme-name.toml or "$HOME"/.config/helix/theme-name.toml or ~ in lieu of "$HOME" or indicate path to the theme files under /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/themes/theme-name.toml, whether I disable SE linux or not, whether I change permissions to full world and full activity (777), of whether I keep the original name (eg,catpuccin_frappe.toml) or change it to theme.toml in ~/.config/helix/config.toml, the style will not load, even though I can see that the configuration itself is loaded, via changes in the editor (vertical tab indicators eg).

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx -c ~/.config/helix/config.toml Also hx -c "$HOME/.config/helix/config.toml". And I tried multiple themes, including the official ones, to make sure a typo in the theme wasn't part of the problem, too.

I expected this to happen:
Theme to update.

Instead, this happened:
Same purple theme.

Yes I tried configuration-reload within the editor. Yes I also quit hx, verified the process was dead, and relaunched helix.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

Theme: file not found for: sonokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:16:40.569 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `sonokai.toml` -
Theme: file not found for: sonokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:17:13.619 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `sonokai.toml` -
Theme: file not found for: sonokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:19:49.360 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `sonokai.toml` -
Theme: file not found for: sonokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:20:41.975 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/sonokai.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/themes/so
nokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:20:50.900 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/sonokai.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/themes/so
nokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:21:59.264 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/sonokai.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/themes/so
nokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:54:57.352 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/sonokai.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/themes/so
nokai.toml
2024-05-04T13:55:35.392 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T13:55:35.576 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:19:08.156 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:19:09.372 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:19:13.804 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:24:53.269 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `sonokai.toml` -
Theme: file not found for: sonokai.toml
2024-05-04T14:31:21.660 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/
themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml
2024-05-04T14:35:50.425 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/
themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml
2024-05-04T14:36:18.791 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `/usr/lib64/helix
/runtime/themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml` - Theme: file not found for: /usr/lib64/helix/runtime/
themes/catpuccin_frappe.toml
2024-05-04T14:48:08.400 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `theme.toml` - Th
eme: file not found for: theme.toml
2024-05-04T14:49:39.111 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:49:39.846 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:50:02.126 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T14:50:03.742 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: underlined
2024-05-04T15:20:16.200 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `theme.toml` - Th
eme: file not found for: theme.toml
2024-05-04T15:20:50.952 helix_term::application [WARN] failed to load theme `theme.toml` - Th
eme: file not found for: theme.toml

Re: the attribute complaints, I found a pair of typos in the Sonokai themes. Even after fixing them, helix couldn't find the theme files, which is weird because a) it WAS able to find the typographic errors and b) I can load the same theme files from within the editor itself (:theme sonokai_andromeda.toml, eg) and see the changes in helix. It just seems that when the command line flag -c is used for the user preferred config file, the program misinterprets the theme request somehow.

Platform

Linux - fedora sericea

Terminal Emulator

wezterm-flatpak org.wezfurlong.wezterm/x86_64/stable AND alacritty 0.13.2

Installation Method

both in toolbox environment (container) via rpm and via fresh binary in main environment (not in container)

Helix Version

helix 24.3 (2cadec0)

[pascalkuthe]

-c does not change the location of the runtime directory.

https://docs.helix-editor.com/install.html#configuring-helixs-runtime-files

[dkragen]

I'm not sure that relates, but in any case, I found a separate really dumb mistake I made (forgetting to drop .toml in declaring the theme). And hx seems to adopt the theme without any problems now. Sorry for wasting your time.