Terminal Settings

Terminal Settings (PTS)

Plaid's terminal settings (PTS) let you manage Plaid from the terminal. Sourced from your shell profile, they provide plaid-<setting> commands for every setting, plus plaid-settings, plaid-settings-help and plaid-update.

plaid-active-border-width 5     # set a setting, e.g. the active border width
plaid-gap 12                    # set the window gap
plaid-settings                  # list every available setting
plaid-settings-help             # full help with types and descriptions
plaid-update                    # check for a newer Plaid release

Booleans accept true/false, 1/0, on/off, yes/no. Color/string-array settings accept a single value or a comma-separated list (e.g. plaid-active-border-color '#bd93f9','#50fa7b').

Plaid installs the source line automatically based on your shell.

Bash

Automatic — no action needed. Plaid injects the source line into ~/.bashrc on login.

Zsh

Plaid shows a notice on login with the line to add to ~/.zshrc:

[ -f '/path/to/plaid-terminal-settings.sh' ] && source '/path/to/plaid-terminal-settings.sh'

Replace /path/to with the extension's install path (~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/plaid@plyply99 for a user install).

Fish

Automatic — no action needed. Plaid injects a guarded source block into ~/.config/fish/config.fish on login (fish-native plaid-terminal-settings.fish). The block is idempotent — it never duplicates.

Manual setup

The terminal settings scripts live in the extension directory: plaid-terminal-settings.sh (bash/zsh) and plaid-terminal-settings.fish (fish). You can source them manually from any shell:

source ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/plaid@plyply99/plaid-terminal-settings.sh

source ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/plaid@plyply99/plaid-terminal-settings.fish

See also: Layouts & Settings for the full settings list.