Terminal color scheme recommendations

dugan · 12-17-2013, 12:23 PM

I love Solarized, but it doesn't work well with dialog-based software such as slackpkg, sbopkg, and pkgtool. Yes, this is a Slackware-specific issue, because Slackware is the only distribution where you use a lot of dialog-based software.

What terminal color schemes should I try out instead?

And don't say "the default." Anything would be better than dark blue directories on a black background.

GazL · 12-17-2013, 12:30 PM

I use the "Tango" colourset

Code:

! Tango Colour Scheme 
*color0: #2e3436
*color1: #cc0000
*color2: #4e9a06
*color3: #c4a000
*color4: #3465a4
*color5: #75507b
*color6: #0b939b
*color7: #d3d7cf
*color8: #555753
*color9: #ef2929
*color10: #8ae234
*color11: #fce94f
*color12: #729fcf
*color13: #ad7fa8
*color14: #00f5e9
*color15: #eeeeec

XTerm*Background: black
XTerm*Foreground: #a0c0e0

Result can be seen in the desktop thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5072151

ondoho · 12-17-2013, 04:27 PM

272 posts and counting:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9935

astrogeek · 12-17-2013, 04:47 PM

I got some good ideas from this LQ thread, try the .Xresources from post #40 as a good starting point.

In addition I also have created my own Vim colors which makes code comments readable and generally follows closely my .Xresources.

dugan · 01-21-2014, 07:14 PM

We'll see how long it takes me to get tired of this, but I'll stick with it for now:

An unchanged Xresources, but with a .dir_colors that displays every file type in a different color:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/commen...more_than_300/

jstg · 01-22-2014, 01:19 AM

This is what I use. It's not "pretty" but I enjoy it.

Code:

! Colors
! black
*color0:                    #000000
*color8:                    #6a6a6a
! red 
*color1:                    #9e1828
*color9:                    #cf6171
! green
*color2:                    #aece91
*color10:                   #6ce05c
! yellow
*color3:                    #d2bb4b
*color11:                   #e7db52
! blue
*color4:                    #3673b5
*color12:                   #1b85d6 
! magenta
*color5:                    #a070a0
*color13:                   #c090c0
! cyan
*color6:                    #00a8a8
*color14:                   #50fcf8
! white
*color7:                    #a8a8a8
*color15:                   #ffffff

kikinovak · 01-22-2014, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

I love Solarized, but it doesn't work well with dialog-based software such as slackpkg, sbopkg, and pkgtool.

Same problem here. Solarized is really nice, but since it doesn't play well with NCurses, I've switched to the Tango theme.

GNU/Linux · 01-22-2014, 09:00 AM

Code:

*background:    #181818
*foreground:    #C0C0C0

!black
*color0 :            #222222
*color8 :            #454545
!red
*color1 :            #B22222
*color9 :            #FA8072
!green
*color2 :            #556B2F
*color10:            #9ACD32
!yellow
*color3 :            #B8860B
*color11:            #DAA520
!blue
*color4 :            #4682B4
*color12:            #6495ED
!magenta
*color5 :            #9932CC
*color13:            #DA70D6
!cyan
*color6 :            #87CEEB
*color14:            #B0E0E6
!white
*color7 :            #C0C0C0
*color15:            #FFFFFF

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