Can't change variant in command mode

[barksten]

I have macOS configured to change to dark mode at night (auto).
I've set set -g @rose_pine_variant 'dawn' in my tmux.conf.
I understand that you can't set variant to auto and have tmux autodetect the screen mode as you can in Ex. Wezterm.
I did however expect that I could change variant using command mode ( C-b : ) but It doesn't work for me.
How do I change it?

[mrs4ndman]

I mean, it COULD be done with environment variables. The thing is, the theme wasn't created with hot-reload between variants, so I would neeed to test out ways to make it reload itself 🤔

You can maybe unset the option in you .tmux.conf and have a shell script that runs on shell startup the command ↓

tmux set -g @rose_pine_variant '<whatever variant>'
tmux source ~/.tmux.conf

This sorta works :)