I spent the last hour on trying to figure out how to get decent coloring into the Terminal.app on Mac OS X (because iTerm has some weird bug with Displaying Umlauts and the like), and I finally got it to work following these steps:
- Install SIMBL.
- Install the TerminalColors.bundle for Mac OS X 10.6 or for Mac OS X 10.7, which I recompiled so it works with systems newer than Leopard and its Terminal.app Version.
- And by installing I mean dropping it into /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins for all users, or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins for your account only.
- Install a theme, for example one of the two listed below.
Night Lion Theme
Infinite Red Black Theme
This should be it. Pretty simple if you know what to do :)


Hey will it be a updated version of TerminalColors.bundle for os x lion ?
// jimmy
Hi Jimmy,
I must say that I am not sure, because I haven’t been following it’s development pretty much since I wrote this blog post, because shortly after I switched to using iTerm2, which supports all kinds of nice stuff, including color themes, natively. I’d suggest that you give it a test ride :)
You can download it at: http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/downloads/list
Also, in case you don’t like iTerm2, I’ve fired up Xcode and recompiled TerminalColors for Lion, tested it, and it seems to work just fine.
Have fun with it :)