Colors not showing up

[httpNick]

Hello,

When I install a theme such as AdventureTime it doesn't show up in the terminal properly. I think I am missing some kind of intermediate step? Here is a screenshot of what it shows after installing AdventureTime on my machine. I tried installing Tomorrow night and the text was just grey. Anyone know what I am missing? Thanks, and thank you for all the themes!

[lysyi3m]

Hi!

Thank you for your feedback! It looks like you've don't enabled "Display ANSI colors" option in Terminal's preferences (⌘+, and go to "Profiles" tab).

Hope it helps.

[httpNick]

Hey there thanks for the reply. - I believe I have it enabled. Is there anything that looks wrong here?

[lysyi3m]

Okay, I see. Color schemes itself are just overwrite ANSI-color values in Terminal.app, but you have to enable color formatting in command line utilities to see any formatted output.

Here some options:

1. Manually enabling color formatting for such commands like ls:
   Open your .bash_profile or .bash_profile (I believe you're using bash shell, am i right?) in any text editor like nano ~/.bash_profile and paste following somewhere in the end of file:

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls='ls -GFh'

Then save it, exit editor and type source ~/.bash_profile.

2. Simpler variant: install grc via homebrew

$ brew install grc
$ echo 'source "`brew --prefix`/etc/grc.bashrc"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

It'll give you more color formatting options

3. Another great solution - install zsh shell with oh-my-zsh. There are dozen of formatting themes for shell prompt (with colorized output). It works pretty well with schemes in my repo.

[gantaa]

Thanks for the bash_profile tip. works great!

[lysyi3m]

@gantaa, cheers! 🍻

[3rror404]

Hey @lysyi3m, I had to edit the bash_profile on both of my Macs. Might be worth adding this step to the installation instructions.

Thanks for the themes!

[oddukgi]

This command didn't work. type this.
echo 'source "brew --prefix grc/etc/grc.bashrc"' >> ~/.bash_profile

[oddukgi]

I fix my bug.. Thanks all !

[npoisonivy]

I got this error "Error: Unknown command: –prefix" after running below line..
echo ‘source “brew –prefix grc/etc/grc.bashrc”‘ >> ~/.bash_profile

Can anyone please help me on this? This is what I have at my file:

The file name displayed on my Finder is

But somehow on my sublime, the file name is corrupted as this. I am not sure if this cause the problem.

[NathanHazout]

@lysyi3m I am trying option (2), and the echo line does not work, maybe some issues with formatting?

[lysyi3m]

@nasht00 oops. Some weird formatting issue. Snippet updated.

[cemuka]

I couldn't make it work either. echo line return that error: -bash: $: command not found.

[lysyi3m]

@cemuka $ sign represents the standard shell prompt and is usually used to show that the commands need to be entered in terminal. $ is not part of the command

[cemuka]

@lysyi3m oh my bad! didn't notice it. thank you!

[ng-xcv]

Thanks a lot ☺️

[smartin]

Thank u!

[vwtlin]

Thanks a lot for the solution!

[gsmondras]

Okay, I see. Color schemes itself are just overwrite ANSI-color values in Terminal.app, but you have to enable color formatting in command line utilities to see any formatted output.

Here some options:

1. Manually enabling color formatting for such commands like ls:
   Open your .bash_profile or .bash_profile (I believe you're using bash shell, am i right?) in any text editor like nano ~/.bash_profile and paste following somewhere in the end of file:

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls='ls -GFh'

Then save it, exit editor and type source ~/.bash_profile.

2. Simpler variant: install grc via homebrew

$ brew install grc
$ echo 'source "`brew --prefix`/etc/grc.bashrc"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

It'll give you more color formatting options

3. Another great solution - install zsh shell with oh-my-zsh. There are dozen of formatting themes for shell prompt (with colorized output). It works pretty well with schemes in my repo.

This looked promising (same thing seems to be happening to me?), but i am using zsh already. Should I manually enable color formatting in my .zshrc?