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