Color schemes for Gnome Terminal

Scripts for setting base-16, solarized and zenburn color schemes in gnome-terminal.

Warning

Please, note that github repository is only a mirror, the main efforts in this code are submitted to gitlab.

Installation and usage

To be able to uninstall, we highly recommend that you create a new Gnome Terminal profile, using the menus in Gnome Terminal.

You need the dconf command (if you run a recent Gnome version). With Ubuntu, this can be installed by running

$ sudo apt-get install dconf-cli

Then clone the repository and you can run the installation script:

$ git clone https://github.com/gnumoksha/gnome-terminal-colors.git
$ cd gnome-terminal-colors
$ ./install.sh

And just follow the instructions.

To run this script remotely or via cron (or from any shell where DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set), you need to start a dbus connection:

$ dbus-launch ./install.sh

Uninstall

Change to another profile in Gnome Terminal, then remove the Solarized profile by running:

Gnome 3.6 or lower

$ rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Solarized/
$ gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-terminal

Gnome 3.8 or higher

Be sure to have the dconf-cli package installed and do:

$ dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/PROFILE_ID"

Replace PROFILE_ID by your profile ID (you can get it in your profile configuration in gnome-terminal).

Themes

Each theme has is own folder in the colors dir. It contains the following files:

• bd_color: bold color
• bg_color: background color
• fg_color: foreground color
• palette: list of colors for all standard color codes.

No additional configuration is needed to add a theme, the installation script just list at launch the children folders in the colors dir.

Dircolors

The installation script will ask if a solarized dircolors is wanted. It will be downloaded and installed as ~/.dir_colors/dircolors. On CentOS, it can be an issue (see issue #62), as the default setup use ~/.dir_colors as dircolors. In that case, you should manually move ~/.dir_colors as ~/.dir_colors/dircolors before starting the installation script.

If the dircolors is not applied, please check that your shell actually source your dircolors:

if [ -f ~/.dir_colors/dircolors ]
    then eval `dircolors ~/.dir_colors/dircolors`
fi

This should not be necessary on major distributions (such as Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) but could be on ArchLinux, Gentoo and others.

Similiar projects

• https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh
• https://github.com/base16-builder/base16-builder

FAQ

Conflicting background colors in VIM

Use the 16 colors terminal option to get VIM to look like GVIM with solarized colors.

set t_Co=16