Fish provides no way to set the background color for the entire terminal window. Configuring the window background color (and other attributes such as its opacity) has to be done using whatever mechanisms the terminal provides. Before 17b4b39, it was possible to specify fallback colors for situations where 24-bit colors are not supported (e.g.
on the Linux console). This could be done by setting the fish_color_* variables to a list, where the first element is the 24-bit color and the second element the fallback value, e.g. When using Fish shell in dark mode, the color of a valid command is an unreadable blue.
Themes do not change it, and terminal settings don't either. To change the color of the command. To debug color palette problems, tput colors may be useful to see the number of colors in terminfo for a terminal.
Fish launched as fish. You mean the color of the autocorrect text? You can run fishcolors in terminal or you can run commands manually to make your own color scheme. My dots has a file called fishcolors.fish.
Run that and it will set your fish colors to my color scheme. You can then play around with the colors until you like them. Dots.
Fish Config From this browser page, you can change terminal color, prompt style (ajay@ajay ~>, in the first fish shell image) and see different fish functions and key bindings. Just change to. Glorious VGA Color fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology.
Behold the monospaced rainbow. So below are the ingredients I used to customize my Terminal and instructions for some key steps. Ingredients iTerm2: A popular terminal emulator for macOS Colors: I personally use Solarized Dark Download Solarized Unzip and double click on the the color scheme Solarized Dark.itermcolors under the directory /iterm2.
Fish supports expressing colors in hex, and, provided your terminal emulator supports it, will directly print components of its "ui" in the colors you specify. You can set these via variables, most prefixed fish_color. Making your Linux terminal look awesome means upgrading to a modern emulator, using better colors and fonts, switching to a feature-rich shell like Zsh, and adding tools and plugins that boost both appearance and productivity.