Themes won't work on Irssi 1.4.5. I've downloaded the theme files into the correct directories but they do not work. I have checked the custom themes and they do have code inside them, so that isn't the problem. Even the preinstalled ones that come with installing Irssi itself don't work (excluding default). My suspicions are either I accidentally installed it incorrectly, or themes are incompatible with my distribution (I hope it's not the latter). I have Meson 0.49.0 but couldn't install Ninja 1.5 and had to use 1.5.1 since 1.5 was not on the Ninja Github page.

PS. If there's no help for this issue here, where's a better place to ask? I would ask on Irssi itself but I'm familiar with tech support forums and find that more efficient. Is there an Irssi forum I don't know about?

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Strings the binary and see where it's looking for themes.
So themes could go in that directory like "/usr/share/irssi/themes/cyanic.theme" or my install uses ~/.irssi as well. From in the client "/set theme cyanic" should work. Replace "cyanic" with whatever you have in those directories. Make sure your user can read the .theme files. I have this version of Irssi and it works here so other than that, I don't know what it could be.

I may be doing this wrong but inputting anything in that code into my terminal only comes up with "No such file". I do have a ~/irssi-1.4.5/themes and a ~/.irssi but nothing else. I looked at permissions on my theme files and everything (read, write, execute) is checked. Execute wasn't checked originally but after checking it on all of them and running irssi and the set theme command nothing changed.

That is very strange.... but the error message of "No such file" basically means you have not installed Irssi binary in that location. How did you install Irssi? Through the package manager? Or did you clone the github repository?

If you chose to clone the repo, there are dependencies which seem you are not meeting (Meson and Ninja versions). I would highly recommend you use your distro package manager to install Irssi, unless you have a very strong requirement for installing the github repo.

Wow all I had to do was just delete everything, enter the command and download the theme to ~/.irssi/. I don't remember how I messed up my previous install so badly but the theme finally works, thank you.