Documentation on coloring the themes

[jafber]

I am looking at the powerline theme right now. I know I can configure it's colors, for example by doing export USER_INFO_THEME_PROMPT_COLOR={some integer value}. I have tried out quite a few values, but the outcome is seemingly random - I can't for the life of me figure out how they're encoded. The official documentation does not even mention coloring.

Please explain, I'm getting desperate.

[davidpfarrell]

Greetings!

As I recall powerline supports standard 256 terminal colors.

What I think you'll want is a way to review which what colors each value renders in your terminal.
I googled "print 256 colors terminal" and found this page:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/821157/print-a-256-color-test-pattern-in-the-terminal

The answer I went with uses this gist:

• HaleTom/print256colours.sh

Here's what the script looks like in my terminal:

*NOTE: I have modified values 0-15 to represent the Solarized Color Scheme

You should find that the color/numbers correspond to those used in the powerline themes.

Hope that helps - lemme know how it goes!

[jafber]

Thanks, that cleared it up :]

[NoahGorny]

Great answer @davidpfarrell !
I am closing this issue now, @CheeseCrustery feel free to reopen if you need any help

Happy bashing 😄