bug: theme.yml doesn't work on macOS

[virtual-voyager]

Version: v0.20.7

I have a theme.yml in ~/.config/eza/theme.yml. The theming works on my linux machine - but not on macOS. I have set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to $HOME/.config in my .zshenv.

I tried using iTerm2 and kitty and it doesn't work on either when using macOS. I also tried setting $EZA_CONFIG_DIR to ~/.config/eza which also didn`t resolve the issue.

[kristof-mattei]

For some reason I have not identified, I am running 0.20.3 and I have the same issue that ~/.config/eza/theme.yml is not being parsed on macOS. I do not have $XDG_CONFIG_HOME set.

[kristof-mattei]

Okay, if you set $EZA_CONFIG_DIR to /Users/<username>/.config/eza it works. PathBuf::from("~/...") does not resolve the ~, that is a shell function.

Now, as to why it doesn't even work when you just put it in ~/.config/eza/theme.yml is because on macOS dirs.config_dir() returns $HOME/Library/Application Support

Location: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/blob/29afcb50e0d16e87ac5fd0f70976231a92d80966/src/options/theme.rs#L47

[kristof-mattei]

What's worse is that even if you were to put your config in ~/Library/Application Support/eza/theme.yml it still doesn't work as if the theme comes from there it merely reads the default theme:

https://github.com/eza-community/eza/blob/29afcb50e0d16e87ac5fd0f70976231a92d80966/src/options/theme.rs#L50

[brandonbishopp]

I have also experienced this issue

[brandonbishopp]

Setting CONFIG_DIR to /Users/<username>/.config/eza Also worked for me. the comments are very vague and I thought you needed to set it to ...eza/theme.yml. it also doesn't take control of the directory or filename colours on Iterm for me. @kristof-mattei Did you have the same problem?

[dimosped]

@brandon-1999 @kristof-mattei same here, while using the absolute path instead of '~' fixed the issue of not picking up the theme on MacOS, some elements of the theme have no effect/impact e.g. the directory and filename colours (all the filekinds theme overrides don't work really):

https://github.com/eza-community/eza-themes/blob/main/themes/tokyonight.yml#L3-L13 https://github.com/eza-community/eza/blob/v0.20.9/src/theme/default_theme.rs#L28

[leij0318]

eza also cannot import configured themes on linux, even though I have set the EZA_CONFIG_DIR environment variable. But on Windows, this can be solved by setting the EZA_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.It is strongly recommended to add a config.toml configuration file like lsd, which can be customized. After all, some columns are not used on Windows. Although I have configured the theme and configuration file of lsd, lsd starts very slowly when importing the configuration and theme on Windows. Fortunately, the speed of Linux is OK; I hope eza can support customized configuration while starting quickly.

[itdojo]

I am (was) having the same issue. Setting the full path for $EZA_CONFIG_DIR helped but a theme.yml in the folder is ignored. It was only after I created a theme.yml link in ~/Library/Application Support/eza (had to manually create eza dir) that things began working.

Here is what got me working:

My .zshrc:

EZA_CONFIG_DIR=/Users/<username>/.config/eza
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/Users/<username>/.config

Theme repo is cloned into ~/.config/eza/ so things look like this:

❯ tree -d ~/.config/
/Users/<username>/.config/
├── eza
│   ├── eza-themes
│   │   ├── imgs
│   │   └── themes
│   ├── test_dir
│   │   └── src
│   └── themes

mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/eza

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/eza

ln -sf $EZA_CONFIG_DIR/eza-themes/themes/tokyonight.yml ./theme.yml

Confirm:

eza -lh --icons $EZA_CONFIG_DIR/test_dir

Sadly, I only came across this discussion when I was a few hours into troubleshooting this. Thank you kristof-mattei for providing the piece that allowed for forward progress.

[halo]

To test this, I created theme.yml (an actual file, not a symlink) in both these locations on macOS 15.5:

~/Library/Application\ Support/eza/theme.yml
~/.config/eza/theme.yml

Only the theme at ~/Library/Application\ Support/eza/theme.yml is picked up by eza 0.23.0, no matter what I put in the ENV variables.

EDIT: Interestingly, when I set the ENV variables to an invalid path (as I first accidentally did like this:)

export EZA_CONFIG_DIR=/Users/<username>/.config/eza/theme.yml
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/Users/<username>/.config/eza/theme.yml

then no theme is picked up at all. So the variables clearly do something, but even when set to the proper path, they don't have the desired effect.

[EliW]

Just chiming in. Appears I have the same issue happening. And no variation of above appears to be solving my issue for me. I can't get ANY theme.yml to be read.

This is with eza installed with homebrew, fwiw

[zveinn]

Same here, doesn't seem to work on arch linux. Tried every single combination of $EZA_CONFIG_DIR I could think of

[PedrelliMath]

If someone using Linux has this problem where eza suddenly stops displaying colors, it may be a conflict with the LS_COLORS variable.

put in your .bashrc/zshrc

unset LS_COLORS