solarized / xresources

Solarized for X Windows

Solarized

Precision colors for machines and people

Project Home: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Collection of implementations: http://github.com/solarized

Deprecated collection: http://github.com/altercation/solarized

Xresources Color Scheme

http://github.com/solarized/xresources

Use of color schemes with X Windows is heavily dependent upon one's local configuration. Please see the fine Arch Linux wiki for guidance on the use of .Xresources and related files.

Further information on the .Xresources file and its place in the X Window System can of course be found on Wikipedia.

xresources's Issues

color8 = background color

Hello!
First of, great work on the color scheme, i really like it.
Only problem in the terminal, i don't think that background and color8 should both have the same value, because some programs use color8 to display text on the background and so it's invisible with the solarized color theme. So should color8 be changed? And if so to what color?
The attached image shows an example, htop with missing information highlighted with red circles.

Display Managers wreck this .Xresources file

If you add this to your ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults when using the Gnome Display Manager (possibly many others), it will run xrdb with the -nocpp flag, which will cause your define statements such as #define S_base03 #002b36 to be ignored. Terminals and apps will substitute there own values, and you end with a mess, and in some cases unuseable terminals. URXVT is solid pink with text of the exact same color so you can't even use it. Please factor out the #define statements or offer a warning about this unwanted behavior in the readme.

wrong Xresources.light

#define S_base03 #002b36
*background: S_base3

This is wrong, this is the dark background from the dark version.

Which version of the solarized xresources should people use?

It looks like there is this repo, and then a copy in https://github.com/altercation/solarized.

The code is different. Which one should I use?

Thanks

color variable names confusing

The naming of the variables seems a little bit confusing. For instance: in dark mode, we have #define S_base03 #002b36, and in light mode, we have #define S_base03 #fdf6e3.

But if we look at the solarized values table on the main site, we see base03 #002b36.

So the entry for the light mode is sort of incorrect.

I think this is done just so that in the common code we can have *background: S_base03 work for either light or dark, but it seems like it would be better to have the light and dark sections each name their own background variable, instead of changing the value of base03, which should be constant across both schemes (just used in different ways).