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Colour Scheme PaperColor for KDE Konsole
This is an adaption of the PaperColor theme for the KDE terminal emulator Konsole.
Many thanks go to z2oh. From his dotfiles repository the first version of this colour scheme was copied.
Gallery
Man Page of Bash with Search Highlight of 'Bourne-Again'
<img src="https://raw.github.com/MaxG87/konsole-papercolor/main/screenshots/manpage-and-highlight.png" width="400"/>Zsh Prompt and Several Watson Colours
<img src="https://raw.github.com/MaxG87/konsole-papercolor/main/screenshots/watson-grey.png" width="400"/>Zsh Prompt Icons and Smart Suggestion
<img src="https://raw.github.com/MaxG87/konsole-papercolor/main/screenshots/zsh.png" width="400"/>Installation
To add this colour scheme to Konsole, copy the colour scheme file to
.local/share/konsole/. Then you will be able to select it in the dialogs.
Description of Colour Codes
This section lists some known usages for the individual colour names. This makes it much easier to test certain changes.
| Colour Name | Known Usage |
|---|---|
| Background | <ul><li>normal background</li></ul> |
| Color0 | <ul><li>Zsh prompt text's font colour</li><li>Tmux status bar's font colour</li><li>needrestart's box' shadow</li><li>background colour of devices in the output of ls /dev/sd*</li></ul> |
| Color0Intense | <ul><li>Zsh smart suggestions</li></ul> |
| Color1 | <ul><li>Zsh's failure cross for error exit codes</li><li>marked as important messages' font colour in Mutt's index</li></ul> |
| Color1Intense | <ul><li>font colour if Zsh cannot find a command</li><li>font colour of remote branches in output of git log</li><li>archives (*.xz, *.zst, etc.) in output of ls or exa</li></ul> |
| Color2 | <ul><li>Tmux' status bar's background colour</li><li>font colour for time specification of watson status</li><li>font colour for known commands in Zsh</li></ul> |
| Color2Intense | <ul><li>font colour of local branches in output of git log</li><li>font colour of file names in output of ag</li><li>number of current prompt in IPython</li></ul> |
| Color3 | <ul><li>highlight of matches in ag's search results</li><li>Zsh' prompt bar in dirty Git repositories</li><li>highlight of currently selected messages in Mutt's index</li></ul> |
| Color3Intense | <ul><li>font colour of tags in output of git log</li><li>line numbers' font colour in output of ag</li><li>font colour of JSON files in output of ls and exa</li><li>font colour of devices in the output of ls /dev/sd*</li></ul> |
| Color4 | <ul><li>normal Zsh prompt bar</li></ul> |
| Color4Intense | <ul><li>patch question's font colour in git commit -p</li><li>folder's font colour in output of ls and exa</li><li>Mutt's header's and footer's font colour</li><li>font colour of sender in Mutt's pager</li></ul> |
| Color5 | <ul><li>project names' font colour in TDWatson's commands (watson status, watson log, watson start)</li><li>file name's font colour in output of grep</li></ul> |
| Color5Intense | <ul><li>font colour of image files (*.jpeg, *.png, etc.) in output of ls and exa</li></ul> |
| Color6 | <ul><li>package name's font colour in output of poetry install</li><li>highlight of currently selected line in htop</li></ul> |
| Color6Intense | <ul><li>HEAD in git log</li></ul> |
| Color7 | <ul><li>Mutt' header's font colour</li><li>deleted entries' font colour in Mutt's index</li><li>needrestart's box' colour</li><li>font colour for services mentioned by needrestart</li></ul> |
| Color7Intense | <ul><li>font colour of currently selected messages in Mutt's index</li></ul> |
| ForegroundFaint | <ul><li>Zsh's update message's font colour for commands (e.g. quarkus)</li></ul> |
Contributing
For faint colours, no usage could be found. If you spot one, please create an issue to let me know.
Changelog
- 2023-05-10: Improved colours slightly. Colours appear more clear and not greyish. Also, unused colours have signal values now to be directly detectable.
- Adaption of Color7 to support a highlighting used by
watson. - Adaptions to two colours to support zsh-autosuggestions.