Wrong colors with Solarized theme in shell

Posted on ma 15 februari 2021 in misc

Solarized colors

I like Solarized, but every now and then, I switch to a different theme just to check it out. Eventually, I'll go back to Solarized, and run into the same problem over and over:

I'll end up having this

Terminal with wrong colors

Instead of this:

Terminal with right colors

Meaning a lot of the colors will show up as bland grey. Yuck.

The simple solution for this is to go into the preferences panel of your shell, like gnome-terminal, or - in my case - Tilix, and uncheck the Show bold text in bright colors checkbox:

Gnome-terminal settings

Much better :)