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Setting Themes for Terminal in Mac OS X
Posted on February 21st, 2009 1 commentAfter spending way too long using a plain black and white color scheme in Terminal and being unimpressed with the theme options under Terminal > Preferences… > Settings Tab, I decided to do a little bit of searching to remedy the situation.
I ran across Todd Werth’s IR_Black Terminal theme, which seemed to be very easy on the eyes. Actually, at the time of this writing, Todd Werth’s theme is the only theme I’ve found.
Steps for setting a theme for Mac OS X Terminal
- Download and install SIMBL
- Download and install TerminalColors Bundle
- Download and install Todd Werth’s IR_Black theme
Note: This article assumes you know your way around Mac OS X, can install programs, and are comfortable manipulate files. Should you need extra help, please contact me or post a comment below and I’ll go into finer detail.
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A few notes -
1. TerminalColors actually doesn’t work, but Ciaran Walsh’s TerminalColours does. Reasons why are on the developer’s blog. Which you may want to check anyway as there are some Snow Leopard fixes, and he’s updated it a few times this month (September 2009.)2. If you actually TRY to install TerminalColors, it will install OVER the new SIMBL install. It’s easy to recover, just re-install SIMBL.
3. If anyone needs to remember the fix to get the pageup/pagedown keys to work properly in screen, it’s:
down:
escape [ 6 ~
up:
escape [ 5 ~(Yes, down is 6, up is 5. I always have to check this in screen. If you're like me and use the copy buffer in screen a lot ( control-a [, control-a ] )
4. This is the only other publicly available term color setup I’ve found:
http://pbunge.crimson.ch/2008/12/tango-themed-os-x-terminal/
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