Changing the text color

[Predrag Mijatovic]

Hi,

I need your help with changing the text color:

I'm talking about dark and light blue...I've set all colors in iTerm2 to red, the text color remains dark/light blue. I've also used my fish theme's (budspencer) "set budspencer_colors 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000" to test it, and text color still remains dark/light blue...so where do I find settings for text color?

Thanks!

[George Nachman]

Maybe it's using the 24-bit color escape sequence, in which case iTerm2's settings would not have an effect on it.

I'm not much of an expert on fish so I can't be of much use there. If I had this problem I would probably dial up the "minimum contrast" slider in Prefs>Profiles>Color when I got tired of mucking around in shell scripts.

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[Predrag Mijatovic]

Can you clarify your first sentence? Maybe I don't understand it right, but shouldn't changing all colors to 000000 (in shell theme) and ffffff (in iTerm2) be enough?

Minimum contrast options doesn't help - it messes up the prompt and it doesn't really make text color more visible...

Side note: I never got an email that there was a reply ("Email updates to me" was checked), and my image is gone, great :)

[George Nachman]

There are a few different ways for an app to specify a color. If it uses the older 16-color technique, then the settings in Prefs>Profiles>Colors completely determine how they appear to you. If an app uses the newer 24-bit color escape code, they give us RGB values and we just show them (with tweaks for minimum contrast and cursor boost).

Changing the shell theme ought to do what you want, but that's more of a fish-specific question.

[Predrag Mijatovic]

Thanks for clarifying, I'll keep digging :)

[Predrag Mijatovic]

Managed to get it sorted thanks to https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-budspencer/issues/22#issuecomment-192618008

It involves setting $fish_color_* variables (I did it through "fish_config" command).