Gruvbox theme?

[gshpychka]

Thank you for the tool, it's awesome. Could anyone please share a good Gruvbox (dark) theme?

[Aeron]

The first problem is that it uses xterm-256 colors, which consist of 16 base system (ANSI) colors and other non-system colors, and those do not remotely correspond to any Gruvbox variants. Custom hexadecimal or RGB values are not an option. Thus, you can only configure it out of your terminal colors. Or try to build an approximation, yet I’m not sure it can be close enough, but maybe I’m wrong.

The second problem is that it uses theme colors for many things except file types. These still solely depend on the LS_COLORS environment variable. Thus, you probably will need to configure it separately.

I’m not sure it’d be helpful, but here is how it works for me. I’m using the Base16 variant of the Gruvbox in my terminal. It looks like this:

0: 282828
1: FB4934
2: B8BB26
3: FABD2F
4: 83A598
5: D3869B
6: 8EC07C
7: D5C4A1
8: 665C54
9: FE8019
10: 3C3836
11: 504945
12: BDAE93
13: EBDBB2
14: D65D0E
15: FBF1C7

And I keep my colors.yaml pretty minimal since I don’t like to change colors for different dates, sizes, and permissions. It looks like the following:

user: 0
group: 0
permission:
  read: 14
  write: 14
  exec: 14
  exec-sticky: 14
  no-access: 14
date:
  hour-old: 2
  day-old: 2
  older: 2
size:
  none: 3
  small: 3
  medium: 3
  large: 3
inode:
  valid: 0
  invalid: 0
links:
  valid: 0
  invalid: 0
tree-edge: 0

So, in my case, the final result looks like this:

I didn’t bother with the LS_COLORS since I thought the file type colors would eventually be configurable in theme colors. And it determines how the directories and files look. And somehow, the permission’s directory indicator as well (#574).

[gshpychka]

Thank you, this is helpful. Just to clarify - where does the first file with color definitions go?

[Aeron]

Oh, the ANSI colors for your terminal, you mean? It depends on the terminal application you use. I print those out for convenience, so it’s not in any specific format but simply raw hexadecimal color values.

If you’re using the macOS built-in Terminal app, I can give you an exported profile with all the settings. For iTerm 2, it’s a bit different, and I don’t have it. But in both cases, it’s configurable from preferences.

Also, you can find profiles for the classic (non-Base16) theme in the official ports repo. It has both osx-terminal and iterm2 profiles if you’re a Mac guy, plus many other ports if not.

The Base16 variant for the Terminal app is at this repo. But I honestly don’t remember whether I’m using the same one or configured/tweaked it myself.

Give it a try 👍