Play with vim colors.

In vim you can customize the colors of your terminal vim or the GUI version. If you wanted to play around with colors then you can simply put the file containing the colorscheme to directory ”~/.vim/colors” and load it in vim with ”colorscheme ”.

That most of you would know. What I will add here is how easy it can be create it if you knew the right place to do it: Head over<a href="http://yukihiro.nakadaira.googlepages.com/vim-color.html" target="_blank"> here. No explanations needed. Anyway if you need help, leave a comment.

Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.

Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/04/20/autoten-install-nvidia-gnome-color-chooser-and-many-others-in-one-click-on-fedora/">here.

Gnome color chooser is an application to allow you to change the color of your gnome DE in all aspects. Very easy to use GUI. Just install it and run it as gnome-color-chooser. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the application.

<img class="size-full wp-image-751" title="Gnome Color Chooser" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gnomecolorchooser.jpg" alt="Gnome Color Chooser" width="346" height="445" />

The beauty of this application is that it allows to use XML files as input so there are lot of possibilities. And one of the most lucarat5ive ones is to download a pack of color schemes from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/84941-daX_UltraPack220_3v2_gnomecc.tar.bz2">here.  This has 220 theme colors to select from in the form of XML files which can be used directly with Gnome Color Chooser. So enjoy.

colors in bash -- script to display all the possible colors.

If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don&#8217;t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show the complete color codes. This is how the output would look:

And here is the script:

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      #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;FILE: &nbsp;colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USAGE: &nbsp;./colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; DESCRIPTION: &nbsp;Bash colors<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OPTIONS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp;REQUIREMENTS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;BUGS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NOTES: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUTHOR: &nbsp;Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; COMPANY: &nbsp;Individual<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VERSION: &nbsp;1.0<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CREATED: &nbsp;09/21/2009 06:12:07 PM IST<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;REVISION: &nbsp;---<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> <br /> for c in `seq 0 255`;<br /> do<br /> t=5;<br /> [[ $c -lt 108 ]]&&t=0;<br /> for i in `seq $t 5`;<br /> do<br /> #Display the codes also for easier lookup in terminal<br /> <!--loginview start-->echo $i;${c}<!--loginview end--><br /> echo -e "<a class="zem_slink" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29">\\</a>\e[0;48;$i;${c}m|| $i:$c `seq -s+0 $(($COLUMNS/2))|tr -d \'[0-9]\'`\\e[0m";<br /> done;<br /> done<br /> <br /> # setup_colors - Adds colors to array CC for global use<br /> # 30 - Black, 31 - Red, 32 - Green, 33 - Yellow, 34 - Blue,<br /> # 35 - Magenta, 36 - Blue/Green, 37 - White,<br /> # 30/42 - Black on Green \'30\\;42\'<br /> <!--loginview start-->function setup_colors(){<br /> declare -a CC;<br /> for i in `seq 0 7`;<br /> do<br /> ii=$(($i+7));<br /> CC[$i]="\\033[1;3${i}m";<br /> CC[$ii]="\\033[0;3${i}m";<br /> done;<br /> CC[15]="\\033[30;42m";<br /> R=$\'\\033[0;00m\';<br /> X=$\'\\033[1;37m\';<br /> export R X;<br /> }<br /> function display_colors(){<br /> for i in $(seq 0 $((${#CC[@]} - 1))); do echo -e "${CC[$i]}[$i]\\n$R"; done<br /> }
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bash colors

For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway here is the one liner for you all: