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Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal also compatible with iTerm on macOS.

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Gogh

Gogh


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Color Scheme Implementer for Terminals

Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal. These schemes are designed to make your terminal more visually appealing and improve your productivity by providing a better contrast and color differentiation. (This fork of Gogh includes a color scheme named "Vaombe".)

The inspiration for Gogh came from the clean and minimalistic design of Elementary OS, but the project has since grown to include a variety of unique and beautiful options. Not only does Gogh work on Linux systems, but it's also compatible with iTerm on macOS, providing a consistent and visually appealing experience across platforms.


This project is here for anyone to use, no expectations.
If you want to buy me a coffee voluntarily, you can use this link.

☕ Buy me a coffee

Index:

gogh


⚙️ Pre-Install

In your terminal, type:

For Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install dconf-cli uuid-runtime

For Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S dconf util-linux-libs

You can now install Gogh in Interactive Mode (Easier) or Non-Interactive Mode! (Ideal for Scripting)



Install

Interactive Mode:

1. Just copy and paste this one-line command:

bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://git.io/vQgMr)"

Or, if you're a Mac user:

bash -c "$(curl -sLo- https://git.io/vQgMr)"

2. Select your installed theme from your terminal.

DEMO:

gogh-demo-profile



⚙️ Install (Non-Interactive Mode)

Two ways:
  • Clone the repository.
  • Download the only required files. (Bare Minimum!)

Clone Repository

# Clone the repo into "$HOME/src/gogh"
mkdir -p "$HOME/src"
cd "$HOME/src"
git clone https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh.git gogh
cd gogh

necessary in the Gnome terminal on ubuntu

export TERMINAL=gnome-terminal

necessary in the Alacritty terminal

pip install -r requirements.txt
export TERMINAL=alacritty

Enter theme installs dir

cd installs

install themes

./atom.sh
./dracula.sh

Download the only required files. (Bare Minimum!)

# Download apply script
wget https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/raw/master/apply-colors.sh

Download desired themes from ./installs/ like this:

wget https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/raw/master/installs/selenized-dark.sh

Optional - download Alacritty dependency (may require additional python packages, see requirements.txt for more)

wget https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/raw/master/apply-alacritty.py

Optional - download Terminator dependency (may require additional python packages, see requirements.txt for more)

wget https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/raw/master/apply-terminator.py

You can also specify where to find the apply scripts with the following environmental variables:

GOGHAPPLYSCRIPT=/path/to/apply-colors.sh
GOGHALACRITTYSCRIPT=/path/to/apply-alacritty.py   # only needed if applying to Alacritty terminal
GOGHTERMINATORSCRIPT=/path/to/apply-terminator.py # only needed if applying to Terminator terminal

Control Gogh behavior with the following:

TERMINAL=gnome-terminal # Select for which terminal to install the theme
                        # (see apply-colors.sh for all supported terminals)
GOGH_NONINTERACTIVE= # Make output silent and answer all prompts with default value
                     # (errors will still be printed)
GOGHUSENEW_THEME= # Make theme the currently used/default one of the terminal
                    # Actual effect may differ between terminals
                    # Supported terminals: xfce4-terminal

Apply downloaded theme (apply script must be in the same folder)

TERMINAL=gnome-terminal bash ./selenized-dark.sh

OR specify apply script path

GOGHAPPLYSCRIPT=/path/to/file/apply-colors.sh bash ./selenized-dark.sh



💻 Terminal Support

Here are some terminals that Gogh is supported with:

🎨 Themes

We have lots of themes in stock! Check them out here!

  • json: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/master/data/themes.json
  • json min: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/master/data/themes-min.json

  • csv: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/master/data/themes.csv



👀 WCAG - Accessibility Contrast

  • Web: https://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/wcag

  • wcag: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/master/data/wcag.json
  • wcag min: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/master/data/wcag-min.json

  • More information: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/


❓ HELP

🔹 Debian Fixes

Fix 1 (@romzie):

  • Reset your profiles:
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/

Fix 2 (@MalwareJedi):

  • Reset your profiles:
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/
  • Close your terminal; re-open it.
  • Go to Edit ---> Preferences ---> Profiles.
  • Create a new profile called Default.
  • Close the terminal. re-open it.
  • Confirm that Default is still listed in your profiles.
  • If it is, run the Gogh script again.

Fix 3 (@sui74):

  • Reset your profiles:
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/
  • "Unname" Rename profile called "default".
sudo apt install uuid-runtime
  • Run the Gogh script.

🔹 Elementary OS

1 - Uncomment the following line in .bashrc ;you can find this file in your /home/USER/ directory.

#forcecolorprompt=yes

2 - Execute in terminal

source .bashrc



🖼️ Create your Own Theme!

Good news! Now, creating themes are easier than ever.

All you need to do is to create a YAML format file, following the example of the other files in the themes folder.

Some rules to keep in mind:

  • The file name should match the name of the theme. For example:
- Filename: Solarized Dark.yml - Inside the .yml file: name: 'Solarized Dark'
  • Use title case for all words by capitalizing their first letter.
  • Ensure that the contrast is sufficient for good legibility.
Now, you can send your Pull Request Thank you for collaborating!

Theme ".yml" template

If you indeed use this, replace the HEX values with your own ones. 
---
name: 'Gogh'
author: ''             # 'Author Name (http://website.com)'
variant: ''            # Dark or Light

color_01: '#292D3E'    # Black (Host) color_02: '#F07178'    # Red (Syntax string) color_03: '#62DE84'    # Green (Command) color_04: '#FFCB6B'    # Yellow (Command second) color_05: '#75A1FF'    # Blue (Path) color_06: '#F580FF'    # Magenta (Syntax var) color_07: '#60BAEC'    # Cyan (Prompt) color_08: '#ABB2BF'    # White


color_09: '#959DCB'    # Bright Black color_10: '#F07178'    # Bright Red (Command error) color_11: '#C3E88D'    # Bright Green (Exec) color_12: '#FF5572'    # Bright Yellow color_13: '#82AAFF'    # Bright Blue (Folder) color_14: '#FFCB6B'    # Bright Magenta color_15: '#676E95'    # Bright Cyan color_16: '#FFFEFE'    # Bright White


background: '#292D3E'  # Background foreground: '#BFC7D5'  # Foreground (Text)


cursor: '#BFC7D5'      # Cursor

Explanation of colors and variables

The colors of the terminal are composed of 18 colors in 3 sections.

Section 1: Regular text.

Section 2: Bold text.

Section 3: text and background.

The basic colors are 8:

  • Black
  • Red
  • Green
  • Yellow
  • Blue
  • Purple
  • Cyan
  • White
In comments variables is that of the console belongs each color.

Here is a picture that explains a little better as colors are distributed.

Colors


👨‍💻 As command line

WARNING: Only if you know what you are doing or trust me :)

sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/gogh https://git.io/vQgMr && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gogh

Now in your terminal just type gogh:

gogh

You can also select themes directly with CLI arguments (skip the interactive list):

# by name/slug (recommended, stable)
gogh Dracula
gogh dracula nord-light

all themes

gogh ALL

For one-line remote usage with arguments, pass -- before the options:

bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://git.io/vQgMr)" -- Dracula


🌱 First commit:

Nov 18, 2013 - aa9871e


:heart: Credits:


:heart: Contributors:

Many thanks to all who have participated in this project.

@contributors



🧠 Author (contributor)

I cannot claim to be the only author of this project. Without the help of the people who have contributed, this would not have been possible. Therefore, that's why all contributors are listed first in this document. While I am listed as the author, the true authors are all those who are mentioned in the document. I would like to express my gratitude to all of them, as well as to future contributors.

This project is here for anyone to use, no expectations.
If you want to buy me a coffee voluntarily, you can use this link.

☕ Buy me a coffee



🖌️ Why Gogh?

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

-- Vincent Van Gogh --



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