How to get some color for urxvt

Nordic89 · 2014-08-20 18:00:13

What I'm looking for is to make my urxvt look like it does in this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/UgH2tJ3.jpg

I've been messing with my ~/.Xdefaults, but that didn't change anything. I'm using rxvt-unicode-pixbuf from the AUR in case that matters.

Trilby · 2014-08-20 18:12:00

Two of those window are vim. Are you using vim? Have you turned on syntax highlighting?

What have you done with your Xdefaults? There isn't much you can do there that is relevant to this other than defining what the 16 base colors will be - redefining these colors does not make any program use them.

Nordic89 · 2014-08-20 20:08:03

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not using vim. The window I was talking about is the one on the bottom right. There seems to be some kind of syntax highlighting, looking at how the the text is colored. Is there some sort of syntax highlighting for bash, or how can that be achieved?

Slithery · 2014-08-20 20:11:17

That's Gentoo's eix utility, it's coded with colour support built-in.
It's of absolutely no use unless you're running Gentoo.

Some applications have built-in colour support that just needs enabling, for example uncommenting the #Color line in /etc/pacman.conf will turn on coloured output from pacman.

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Nordic89 · 2014-08-20 20:28:27

Ah, what a shame. So there colors are only limited to eix, and are don't show up everywhere? I've been looking at the fish shell, which kind of does what I want, but it's less pretty than I had hoped it could be. Do you know of any other programs other than pacman that support colors?

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Trilby · 2014-08-20 20:52:02

Perhaps slithery should have said most programs have color support. You just need to configure the ones you want to use. The terminal just shows what the running program tells it to show. If you want color in vim, you'd set up color in vim. If you want color in mutt, you'd set up color in mutt. Etc.

The terminal has to be capable of showing colors, but yours is. Just because the terminal is capable, though, you still have to use programs that output color.

ls is commonly (and by default in arch) aliased to "ls --colors" which will use the dircolors settings to highlight different filetypes in different colors when you run `ls` commands.

Grep has a similar color setting.

Pacman has color settings.

Most text editors have color settings.

See a pattern?

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How to get some color for urxvt

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