Micro text editor colors

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Quick question: Anyone knows how to make the micro text editor honor the terminal color scheme?

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Why do I never find these things until after I ask a question? No matter how much I look?

To make micro follow the 16 color palette in the terminal settings:

  1. start micro
  2. ctrl+e
  3. type “set colorscheme simple” without the “”
  4. quit micro
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Just so you can mark your own answer as a solution? :rofl: Just kidding… I’m glad you figured it out and this may be useful to others who use micro.

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I use set colorscheme solarized. That also changes with terminal color palette but I think it is only in a different order.
I have pywal set to generate colors from a wallpaper and micro changes every time to the new colors (urxvt - not sure about other terminals).

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Sounds just like my setup. My only problem is that I cannot start terminal apps from launchers (such as the htop icon in the menu) because then it will disregard the color settings.

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Launcher can be usualy changed.
Try changing the launcher to a terminal with the shell command eg. urxvt -e htop.
I don’t know which terminal you use so not sure if it works for you.

       -e command [arguments]
           Run the command with its command-line arguments in the urxvt window; also
           sets the window title and icon name to be the basename of the program being
           executed if neither -title (-T) nor -n are given on the command line. If
           this option is used, it must be the last on the command-line. If there is
           no -e option then the default is to run the program specified by the SHELL
           environment variable or, failing that, sh(1).

           Please note that you must specify a program with arguments. If you want to
           run shell commands, you have to specify the shell, like this:

             urxvt -e sh -c "shell commands"

Examle of micro in my i3 config

set $mod Mod4
set $terminal urxvt
bindsym $mod+F4 exec $terminal -e 'micro'
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That is exactly what I do, But I suspect it’s because I run fish shell that commands ran like that bypasses the fish config and uses bash. Hence ignores the color scheme pywal has created in fish conf.

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Fish, Bash should have nothing to do with terminal’s color schemes. It should be in .Xresources and/or it should be merged with xrdb command.
At least that is what is pywal chaning on my system.

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These are my last two lines in my fish.conf:

cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences
neofetch

Problem is that if i create a launcher that runs “alacritty -e htop” it ignores the line in fish.conf. It very obviously uses the default theme for alacritty.

edit: as for .xresources, that file has not been created by default for at least 5 years. It is almost only tiling window managers and occasional ancient apps (like urxvt) that uses it.

Edit: Ah. Cracked it:
I have to specify the shell like so:

alacritty -e fish -c htop
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you have no idea how long i’ve been looking for this, the fact that it’s that simple(no pun intended) makes me embarassed, i owe you a kiss.