Rxvt-Unicode Terminal Colors
August 13, 2008
Many people overlook urxvt’s ability to display colors in the terminal. They just stick with what it came with and use the default ANSI colors.
ANSI Terminal Colors
I found a great color scheme at this website, but it was only for iTerm — whose settings file doesn’t agree with the standard ~/.Xdefaults files used on other UNIX-like systems.
Using GIMP’s color selector, I was able to figure out each of the 16 colors and port them to urxvt.
InfiniteRed Colors
If you think thats better, here’s my .Xdefaults file:
urxvt*foreground: #f2f2f2 urxvt*background: #101010 ! Normal ! color0 black ! color1 red ! color2 green ! color3 yellow ! color4 blue ! color5 purple ! color6 cyan ! color7 white urxvt*color0: #6c6c6c urxvt*color1: #e9897c urxvt*color2: #b6e77d urxvt*color3: #ecebbe urxvt*color4: #a9cdeb urxvt*color5: #ea96eb urxvt*color6: #c9caec urxvt*color7: #f2f2f2 ! Light ! color8 black ! color9 red ! color10 green ! color11 yellow ! color12 blue ! color13 purple ! color14 cyan ! color15 white urxvt*color8: #747474 urxvt*color9: #f99286 urxvt*color10: #c3f786 urxvt*color11: #fcfbcc urxvt*color12: #b6defb urxvt*color13: #fba1fb urxvt*color14: #d7d9fc urxvt*color15: #e2e2e2
I also turn off the scrollbar with urxvt*scollbar: false and add a border with urxvt*internalborder: 6.
