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Vivid (LS_COLORS) ​

vivid is a generator for the LS_COLORS environment variable that controls the colorized output of ls, tree, fd, bfs, dust and many other tools.

Install ​

Install vivid from your preferred package manager.

Apply ​

Add following snippets to your preferred shell's init script.

  • Bash or ZSH
bash
export LS_COLORS=$(vivid generate "${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/rong/vivid.yml")
  • Fish
fish
set state_home (test -n "$XDG_STATE_HOME"; and echo $XDG_STATE_HOME; or echo "$HOME/.local/state")
set -x LS_COLORS (vivid generate "$state_home/rong/vivid.yml")
  • Nushell
nu
$env.LS_COLORS = (vivid generate $"($env.XDG_STATE_HOME | default $"($env.HOME)/.local/state")/rong/vivid.yml")

Reload ​

Themes will reload on shell restart. Sourcing shell init script will also reload the theme (source ~/.bashrc).

However, if live reload is a must than you can generate a LS_COLORS using dircolors.

bash
source <(dircolors)

This will use basic terminal colors and will be updated when you update the terminal.