Base16 ConEmu

Installation

There are two methods.

Use Install-ConEmuTheme.ps1 PowerShell script. (Recommended)

• First, the script will always create a backup of your config file as ConEmu.backup.xml prior to doing anything else. It's got two operation modes:

To add a theme to your config file:

.\Install-ConEmuTheme.ps1 [-ConfigPath Path] -Operation Add -ThemePathOrName .\themes\base16-twilight.xml

Then restart ConEmu and activate the color theme in ConEmu Settings -> Features -> Colors using the Schemes drop-down.

To remove a theme from your config file:

.\Install-ConEmuTheme.ps1 [-ConfigPath Path] -Operation Remove -ThemePathOrName "Base16 Twilight"

• Note that -ConfigPath argument is optional if your ConEmu.xml is located at the default location C:\Users\You\AppData\Roaming\ConEmu.xml.

Manually add color schemes and modify ConEmu.xml

1. Open ConEmu.xml. Usually it is at ~\AppData\Roaming, where ~ is your home directory (C:\Users\UserName).
2. Paste the color scheme at the end of palette settings part. It starts with the following:

<key name="Colors" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">
    <value name="Count" type="dword" data="00000001"/>
<key name="Palette1" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">

3. If you do not have any custom color scheme, the xml key is not there. In ConEmu, go to Settings -> Feature -> Colors and generate a custom color theme by click on Save button and specify any name. Then Colors key will be automatically generated in your ConEmu.xml. You can overwrite it when you add new themes.

4. Update the palette number (key name PaletteX) accordingly. For example, if you have 1 custom color palette already, it should be Palette2 for the new one:

<key name="Palette2" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">

5. Make sure to increase the value for key name Count under key Colors as well. It should equal to the total number of pallets you have:

<value name="Count" type="dword" data="00000002"/>

6. For example, the Colors part of your modified ConEmu.xml should look like this:

<key name="Colors" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">
    <value name="Count" type="dword" data="00000002"/>
    <key name="Palette1" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">
        <value name="Name" type="string" data="EXISTING COLOR"/>
        <value name="ExtendColors" type="hex" data="00"/>
        ...
        <value name="ColorTable31" type="dword" data="00e3f6fd"/>
    </key>
    <key name="Palette2" modified="2015-03-19 13:53:09" build="150310">
        <value name="Name" type="string" data="NAME OF THE COLOR YOU ADDED"/>
        <value name="ExtendColors" type="hex" data="01"/>
        ...
        <value name="ColorTable31" type="dword" data="00e7fdfd"/>
    </key>
</key>

Also, make sure that all the color options set to Auto to get correct highlighting:

Color mapping

To see the current colors, run this powershell snippet:

[enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor]) | Foreach-Object {Write-Host $_ -ForegroundColor $_}

Here's a screenshot for Base16 Twilight:

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md, which contains building and contributing instructions.

See the Base16 repository for more information.

Attribution

Install-ConEmuTheme.ps1 and the installation instructions are based on https://github.com/joonro/ConEmu-Color-Themes