Unable to Independently Set Mouse Selection Color in Theme

[guoang]

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In the current implementation of Zellij, there is no way to independently set the mouse selection color within the theme configuration. Providing an option to set the mouse selection color independently would greatly improve the customization and accessibility of Zellij, catering to a broader range of user preferences and needs.

Thank you for considering this enhancement.

[sascha-wi]

Yes please.

[simisimis]

On my screen with dominating dark themes Zellij black selection color is barely visible. Only workaround to that is shift selecting which then uses terminal emulator theme, but I am a heavy user of both copy buffers, so shift+select + shift+ctrl+c instead of just select(to copy) and have shift+select for a second copy buffer IMO has a big impact on the ergonomics. Love the great work and I really hope one day we will be able to customize the color of cursor 😬

[Knaifhogg]

I want to add that the Kanagawa theme's selection colors are not visible (unless selecting text with colors). I thought selection was broken for a while.

[imsnif]

This is fixed in the new theme definition spec (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/3242) coming next version. I also spent most of yesterday manually going over all built-in themes specifically fixing this issue, so no worries. :)