Gnome-terminal and solarized theme Coloring Issue

Question

Hi i tried to apply solarized color theme to my gnome terminal, like explained Here

But its all greyed out and not that colorful as expected.

See here

Any Idea what i can do?

Answer 1

Not sure of the reason exactly, but in any of the scripts that install Solarized for gnome that I've seen it is mostly just shades of grey for the most used colours.

This site has some commands for updating the Gnome colour profile: XORCode website

The commands are:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/use_theme_background" --type bool false
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/use_theme_colors" --type bool false
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/palette" --type string "#070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3"
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color" --type string "#00002B2B3636"
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color" --type string "#65657B7B8383"

I found that replacing the third line with one of my own making made the terminal look just right:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/palette" --type string "#070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#6C6C7171C4C4:#2A2AA1A19898:#FDFDF6F6E3E3"

The shell script at the following site can show what is different in the original scheme and the one I found to work: ColourTable script on GitHub

Answer 2

You need to download the .dircolors file as well, first step in this post: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/solarized-must-have-color-paletter-for.html

Answer 3

I believe you have to get 256colors working first before it will display correctly.

1. sudo vim ~/.Xdefaults .xsession .vimrc

2. touch .vimrc and add this:

   set term=screen-256color
   set t_Co=256
   set background=dark
   

   (That's what I did, please keep in mind that I am new to all this and just going from what I remember doing. It took me several days of researching).

   if $COLORTERM == "gnome-terminal" then set t_Co=256 endif
   

   Inside of .Xdefaults: customization: -color

   Then go to next line and: XTerm*termName: xterm-256color

   That should do it. echo $TERM should say xterm-256color and tput colors should return 256.