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Terminal App Theme / Colors on Mac OS X

By x3ro on March 24, 2011

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 :)

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3 responses to “Terminal App Theme / Colors on Mac OS X”

  1. Jimmy Pettersson
    Jimmy Pettersson July 29, 2011 at 9:35 pm |

    Hey will it be a updated version of TerminalColors.bundle for os x lion ?

    // jimmy

  2. x3ro
    x3ro July 29, 2011 at 9:54 pm |

    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

  3. x3ro
    x3ro July 29, 2011 at 10:09 pm |

    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 :)

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