TerminalColoreopard, Change Terminal.app ANSI Color on Leopard
Introducing TerminalColoreopard!
Terminal.app on Leopard supports full ANSI color and multi color profile and many encodings and treat japanese correctly but, one thing – the changing the ANSI color is missing. When we use the Tiger, we can change the ANSI colors on Terminal.app using Terminal Colors Plugin. But this nice plugin cannot work with Leopard one. I tried to write same one for Leopard and now, I present it as beta version.
Snow Leopard Support
I uploaded 64bit TerminalColoreopard plugin for Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.x. It requires to install the newest version of SIMBL prior to use this plugin. If you’re using Leopard, 10.5.x, please use previous version of TerminalColoreopard.
Download and Install
- Download the package
- Double click to mount one.
- If you have never install the SIMBL which TerminalColoreopard need to work, double click SIMBL.pkg to install it.
- You confirm the Terminal.app does not work now. If not, you should quit one.
- Copy the TerminalColoreopard.bundle into (Your Home)/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. If there are no destination, you should create one.
Defects
- Currently the color settings are shared any color profile.
- Even if you change the color using the palette, it will not affect the screen quickly. You currently refresh the screen manually.
Road to 1.0
Fix the defects- Add the installer.pkg
- Add the preset of color set like Tango Colors or something
- Move color pane into the original preference dialog
Change Log
0.2.6
- Support Mac OS X 10.6.3, Snow Leopard only.
0.2.5 Beta
- Support Snow Leopard and 64bit version of Terminal.app, Snow Leopard only.
0.2.4
- Fix the runtime error when you’re using bright color
- You can change even bright colors.
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.4.dmg (105Kbyte)
0.2.3
- Fix the bug which I didn’t commit but was included in 0.2.2
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.3.dmg (63Kbyte)
0.2.2
- Fix memory leak bug
- Add black and white color buttons
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.2.dmg (64Kbyte)
0.2.1
- Support MacOS X 10.5.2 software update
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.1.dmg (63Kbyte)
0.2.0
- Fix missing dmg background
- Remove black and white color settings because we cannot change these color, it seems be depended on the configuration of Terminal.app itself.
- Change the way to hack and overwrite the methods in Terminal.app
- Adjust color configuration panel GUI
- Open the source
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.0.dmg (63Kbyte)
0.1.0
- First release
- TerminalColoreopard-0.1.0.dmg (100Kbyte)
Donation
If you would like to help the TerminalColoreopard project, please feel free to donate via PayPal using the following form.
Thank you for your donation!
Source Code
Now, I publish this project in open source. You can get the whole source code from my github repository.
License
TerminalColoreopard is under MIT License.
Hi, Yoshimasa san..
I got installed on my private library, but I couldn't get it worked. Also, When I installed SIMBL package, It went to the /Library/InputManagers directory. This is not the one that you mentioned above article.
Do you have any idea? What I can install your prestigious application.
Thx
> ms kim
At first, Please check the TerminalColoreopard.bundle are placed in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. If not, place it and quite the terminal then launch it. If you does not get the Color Preference menu item in Terminal.app Main menu(see the pic), please launch the Console.app(place in /Application/Utilities) and find the log said "TerminalColoreopard installed". If not, it seems the problem of this plug-in. please let me know your environment(I mean, is Intel Mac? The version of Mac OS is 10.5.x?)
And, now I'm writing the next version of this plug-in which was changed the way to hack the Terminal.app. I also try to put it on the web asap for checking the implementation. Best.
まさに探し求めていた物です!!
ありがたく使わせて頂きます−
Hello... I tried your application (being desperate to change the dark blue to something else for VI, ls, and such via Terminal) ... but it tells me it hasn't been tested with SIMBL 0.2.1, and therefore won't run... good luck and thanks!
Hi, J.e. Turcotte: The latest version of SIMBL seems 0.8.2 so, I think you can update SIMBL itself using SIMBL.pkg which I included in TerminalColoreopard.dmg. I tested this plugin with this version of SIMBL.
Hi,
Thanx for this application. It is working flawlessly with an up-to-date Leopard installation. I understand (maybe from other sources) that the mechanism used, based on SIMBL is unsupported by Apple and will eventually be removed. I'm not an expert on this matter, so apologies in advance if i'm mistaken. I hope that there is a 'long term' solution, until Apple finaly resolves this issue.
Thanks Niwa, your app works fine... At last I can clearly see my files and folders in Terminal, with colors !
Thanks a lot! Never again too blue...
This worked great with Leopard 10.5.4 and Terminal.app. Thank you very much!
Woo! This is brilliant! Thank you very much! Keep up the good work! I changed everything to lovely shaded pastels.. it looks lovely! And the best part - my eyes don't hurt anymore.
PS - for the best experience combine with the fixed-width font Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Thank you!
I was crying every time I a see dark blue as directory on black background. This is a life saver!!! Thank you.
I installed sucsessfuly and the menu Color menu appears on Terminal.app.
I just don't get how to setup the colours, they're still the same!
Hi, Vitor, You'll get an additional menu item in "Terminal" menu which you can see in the thumbnail on this page. Then you can change the colors. If it still doesn't work, please send me a log which you can get at "All Messages" on Console.app in Utilities with filtering "Terminal"(You may get 'TerminalColoreopard installed' by filtering). Thank you!
thanks so much for this!
Great Addition! Thanks a lot!
Greetings to Tokyo, Japan
from Berlin, Germany
Hey Yoshimasa san, are you going to carry on into Snow Leopard? Or maybe release the source so that someone else can?
> godDLL-san
mmm, currently I can't say yes or no because Snow Leopard doesn't support SIMBL(Input Manager) hack any more. I hope Terminal.app on Snow Leopard has an ability to change the color in itself though, if not, I'd try to find out the way to fix this "BUG"!
Still no options to change the colors on snow leopard, and they've broken the TerminalColors hack :(
Niwa-san,
Thank you so much for your Terminal addition! You have made my life so much better ^_^ It works just fine now on Snow Leopard.
Thanks for the app. Works great on SL!
Great plugin, It seems the other TerminalColour plugin is broken under SIMBL 64 bit. This one work great on though, thanks.
Superb work!
ありがとうございました from Dunedin, New Zealand!
Thank you very much, finaly I can read all the blue text again =D You just made my work easier.
Greetings from Germany =)
Just tried this and I get this error when opening Terminal:
Terminal 2.1 (v272) has not been tested with the plugin TerminalColoreopard (null) (v0.2.4). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.
hi Jordan,
Thank you for your report. I'm not using Snow Leopard mainly, so it is because of update. I'll update this application soon. Thank you!
Hi Jordan,
I checked the package on Snow Leopard then It seems works good. Please using 0.2.5 instead of 0.2.4 because 0.2.4 doesn't support Snow Leopard. Thank you!
Hi,
Please could you release a version that works with the 10.6.3 update?
Thanks!
10.6.3だとエラーが出て動かないですね‥
I'm getting ready to ship new version of TerminalColoreopard for 10.6.3... stay tuned.
Thanks for the fast update for 10.6.3!
arigatou gozaimasu~!! hontoni~!!
すごい重宝しています!いや,いました.
10.6.3でJordan Boesch同様にエラーが出てしまいます..
ターミナルのバージョンが違うようですね.
アンインストールの方法も教えていただけると,幸いです.
Terminal 2.1.1 (v273) has not been tested with the plugin TerminalColoreopard (null) (v0.2.5). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.
> Kikuta さん
0.2.6をダウンロードして上書き、Terminal.appを再起動してください。アンインストールは、SIMBL/PlugIns/TerminalColoreopard.bundleを削除すればよいです。
インストールできました!ありがとうございます!
> Yoshimasa Niwaさん
インストールできました!ありがとうございます!
そして上のコメント,名前間違えました...
A big thanks Yoshimasa.
Your plugin worked for me (10.6.4)
my tmux doesn't show a vivid green toolbar anymore, thanks! :)
Thank you. So much. Finally I can see ANSI blue now.
Big thanks Yoshimasa! Works perfect for me (10.6.7)! Finally I can use monokai colors from TextMate in my terminal :)
Here are the RGB values:
black (0, 0, 0)
red (229, 34, 34)
green (166, 227, 45)
yellow (252, 149, 30)
blue (196, 141, 255)
magenta (250, 37, 115)
cyan (103, 217, 240)
white (242, 242, 242)
bluehat: sounds good. I'm also now using monokai-like color schema.
Thing of beauty! It's so nice to have that constant irritant removed.
Hi Yoshimasa,
Any eta for getting this working with Lion?
Thanks :)
Mark: on Lion, Terminal.app itself finally supports this feature so we don't need to use any plugins to change ANSI colors!