mavnn / mintty-colors-solarized

Color settings for the Cygwin mintty terminal

Based on the solarized color scheme by Ethan Schoonover. See full details at http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

This project can be found at https://github.com/mavnn/mintty-colors-solarized and is designed to be included as a subtree of https://github.com/altercation/solarized

Mintty internal defaults

You can set these as your default /.minttyrc configuration file. This means that a mintty terminal reset doesn't lose your color settings. Simply append the appropriate file to your mintty config file (/.minttyrc) and then edit the file and tweak as below:

cat ./.minttyrc.light >> ~/.minttyrc

or

cat ./.minttyrc.dark >> ~/.minttyrc

Then open the config file and remove the 3 pre-existing color settings for:

ForegroundColour= ...
BackgroundColour= ...
CursorColour= ...

as they will be re-specified further down in the appended section.

Adding to your login scripts

If for any reason you would prefer not to change your config file, you can do the following:

Copy the two files into a directory in your home (for example .solar) and add one of the following lines to your .bashrc file:

source ~/%your directory%/sol.light

or

source ~/%your directory%/sol.dark

Color schemes can be swapped interactively using the same commands.

mintty-colors-solarized's Issues

perhaps Mintty internal default configuration file name changed.

From ~/.mintty to ~/.minttyrc.

From http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/mintty.1.html#21

By default, they are read from /etc/minttyrc and ~/.minttyrc.

Thank you.

Repository maintainer wanted

I no longer use mintty myself; if you do and you'd be happy to help maintain the project, do let me know.

FAQ: nothing changes? Malformed option.

I downloaded your colour scheme and saved it into a separate file. I then source it from ~/.minttyrc but it does just return an error message "Ignoring malformed option 'source .mintty-colours1'.".

The erroneous line looks like this

source ~/base16-solarized.minttyrc.txt

Regular command line commands does not seem to work in the minttyrc as I am used to for regular unix terminals. Maybe a clarification of the install instructions would make sense?

Some elements are invisible when using dark theme

I started using solarized dark theme from you few days ago and it looks great, but today I noticed in htop (on remote linux machine) that some elements are invisible (in red circles - there should be current load and cpu/ram percentage)

Bold colors are gray in MinTTY

In my case, I can edit ~/.minttyrc or add the "echo" commands to my ~/.zshrc file, I get the same results: my bold colors are gray in Cygwin's MinTTY.

Any idea what's going wrong here?

Best regards!