ciembor/4bit

Terminal Color Scheme Designer

4bit Terminal Color Scheme Designer

For users

1. Go to https://ciembor.github.io/4bit.
2. Design your terminal look.
3. Click Download Scheme button and select the format of configuration file.

• ATerm, Urxvt, Rxvt, XTerm and other libXt terminals: Copy the generated text to ~/.Xresources file (you may have to create it) and run xrdb ~/.Xresources.

• Gnome Terminal, Guake: Save the generated script into set_colors.sh, make this file executable $ chmod +x set_colors.sh and run it $ ./set_colors.sh. Alternatively copy generated lines directly into your shell.

• XFCE4 Terminal: Save file as ~/.local/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes/4bit.scheme and choose it in terminal preferences.

• Konsole and Yakuake: Put the generated file to ~/.kde/share/apps/konsole/NAME-OF-SCHEME.colorscheme and restart the terminal.

• iTerm2 for Mac: Create a file ~/NAME-OF-SCHEME.itermcolors with the generated xml content and load it with the Load Presets ... button under iTerm2 / Preferences / Profiles / <Your Profile> / Colors.

• Putty: Save the generated file with .reg extension and double click it.

• Terminator: Copy lines within the [profiles] section of the generated configuration file to ~/.config/terminator/config file.

• Alacritty: Put the generated file to ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml.

• Mintty: Copy the colors and save it in ~/.minttyrc.

• Other terminals: Generate one of the supported formats and copy hex values into the configuration file (or tool) of your terminal.

For developers

You will need some system tools to run the build script:

• GNU Bash
• Java Runtime Environment 8
• Python 2
• LESS compiler (lessc)
• NPM

After git clone run npm install. After that run ./build.sh. It generates compiled JavaScript, compiled LESS, and merged CSS. For compiling code for production run ./build.sh production.

Author

Maciej Ciemborowicz

• https://twitter.com/ciembor
• https://linkedin.com/in/maciej-ciemborowicz

Contributors

Stefan Wienert

• https://github.com/zealot128

Victor Hugo Borja

• https://github.com/vic
• https://twitter.com/vborja

David 'vidister' Weber

• https://github.com/vidister
• https://twitter.com/vidister

Resources

• ArchLinux Wiki - X resources
• original colors.sh

4bit's Issues

iTerm2 Colors.

Output iTerm2 color schemes

For reference, see any of the schemes in following link:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/ColorGallery

Support ConEmu color scheme

ConEmu is a Windows console emulator.

Example of scheme: https://github.com/joonro/ConEmu-Color-Themes/blob/master/Default.xml

MacOS Terminal Support possible?

Is it possible to integrate support for the Terminal App in MacOS? Which reads .terminal files.

Guake 'get scheme' generated wrongly

The last line of the genrated commands after clicking on "get scheme" for guake terminals is not correct.
The order of the color strings is wrong, instead of having them twice in a row they should be all repeated at the end.
I am guessing the first half are for regular colors and the second half are for bold ones.

So, instead of
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/guake/style/font/palette '#000000000000:#000000000000:#d9d93a3a4242:#d9d93a3a4242:#4242d9d93a3a:#4242d9d93a3a:#d9d9d1d13a3a:#d9d9d1d13a3a:#3a3a4242d9d9:#3a3a4242d9d9:#d1d13a3ad9d9:#d1d13a3ad9d9:#3a3ad9d9d1d1:#3a3ad9d9d1d1:#ebebebebebeb:#ebebebebebeb'

it should actually be
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/guake/style/font/palette '#000000000000:#d9d93a3a4242:#4242d9d93a3a:#d9d9d1d13a3a:#3a3a4242d9d9:#d1d13a3ad9d9:#3a3ad9d9d1d1:#ebebebebebeb:#000000000000:#d9d93a3a4242:#4242d9d93a3a:#d9d9d1d13a3a:#3a3a4242d9d9:#d1d13a3ad9d9:#3a3ad9d9d1d1:#ebebebebebeb'

Add app screenshot.

Opening file in new tab / drag and drop to system apps.

Drag and drop was the way how some users used it in Mintty.

Where to save mintty themes?

Did not see anything on where to save them

Ability to input a hex code for the color picker

For the things which allow you to directly choose a color (tint, bg, fg) it'd be nice to be able to input your own values. I often want to make a theme to match my wallpaper but I just have to guess the color with your miniscule picker

Can you explain what i'm looking at on the screen in the picture?

I have no idea the picture, what the rows and columns mean. And the picture almost looks like a terminal window I can type in, but I cant. so I think am I supposed to be able to type in there?

It's extremely confusing this thing. I dont see how it benefits me at all. I dont see how i can generate something and know I'll be happy with the final result because either, it doesnt show enough mockups, or not enough documentation to explain how to use this tool

Save state

If there isn't going to be an import option any time soon, at the very least it would be useful to have client-side saving using localStorage or something. Resetting to default on every page load isn't very user-friendly.

Add Termite support

#19

XFCE 4 terminalrc format issues

my post is here: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=30090#p30090

Windows Terminal Support

#37

Dyeing doesn't get reflected in background color setting

When I set the background color to bright_black and use the dye feature it looks like the background color changes its color in the preview. But this is not reflected in the exported settings (tried with .minttyrc). For bright_black the background color always gets exported as BackgroundColour=34,34,34. This is not right, is it?

Support gnome-terminal with dconf/gsettings

I'm running Fedora 20 with XFCE4 and wanted to use gnome-terminal since it supports multiple profiles and seems faster than xterm. The script 4bit generates works with gconftool-2, but the version of gnome-terminal packaged with F20 looks at the dconf registry for settings.

This page may be useful, though I wasn't able to get very far (not much time to spend on the issue): https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/FAQ

Also there's this: https://github.com/sigurdga/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized/blob/master/install.sh

Import already existing color schemes

It would be awesome, if you could import, let's say your .Xresources and it would get parsed. Then you could work on it and finally when you're done export it back.

Clicking export links does nothing

When I click any of the Export scheme to configurations file, nothing happens

I expected a prompt to download the file or the text copied to clipboard but neither happened.

I managed to get around this by using "save link as"

Chrome 88.0.4324.182

Get Scheme doesn't work

From the popped up panel from http://ciembor.github.io/4bit/#
No buttons downloads any file.

README fails to mention lessc dependency

lessc is required to compile 4bit/less/main.less, but the dependency isn't mentioned in the readme, and no link to the less tool is provided.

XFCE4 terminal support

That's for me:). ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc

Unable to run it on local space.

I followed your guide and changed APP_PATH, but it didn't load CSS. Can you please provide a tutorial to run it after cloning ?

Add KiTTY support

Hi, can you please add a KiTTY output file (ini filetype in fact) when one clicks on the Get Scheme button ?

OSX Terminal support

Some people were asking for OSX terminal support. It looks to be very tricky: http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/yp6ea/how_is_terminalapp_data_coded/

The URL in the README.md is wrong

Hi, the URL in the README.md is wrong , it should be :
https://ciembor.github.io/4bit
instead of :
https://ciembor.github.com/4bit

how to recovery my default guake scheme?

OK, I change my scheme, but now I want to recovery my default guake scheme. And I don't know how to do it.
I try uninstall guake and remove its all config file, and then reinstall it. But it doesn't work.
THX

Termite support

Termite is an up-and-coming terminal developed on VTE, popular amongst Arch Linux and Gentoo users; it's minimalist, and easy to generate for. Right now I'm just using sed to turn the XFCE config into the right one for this.

Config file is described in https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/config

KDE konsole support

It would be nice to provide export to the konsole config file. Some people were asking for that. It looks it is stored somewhere in ~/share/apps/konsole.

Add support for Alacritty Terminal

#35

Putty support

Some people where asking for export to Putty's reg file. Some examples are here: http://www.igvita.com/2008/04/14/custom-putty-color-themes/.

Magenta and cyan are inverted

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ykuj2/4bit_terminal_color_scheme_designer/c5wotoe

Support for gnome-terminal

It would be nice to provide support for gnome terminal, some people were asking for that. gnome-terminal stores colors in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/ in %gconf.xml files.