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!