Last arrow color slightly off?

[claymcleod]

Hey @caiogondim,

Just bringing this to your attention --- wondering if this is a product of the font I'm using or the system configuration:

See how the last arrow is slightly discolored? That just bugs me.

Oddly enough, that behavior only happens for the last arrow:

FYI, I'm using Source Code Pro for Powerline. What font are you using?

[dhayab]

Hi, I also had this problem, and in my case it was fixed by reducing the window transparency in my terminal settings until the colors matched.

[caiogondim]

Transparency is only applied to background colours, not to foreground. This can also help you: https://github.com/caiogondim/bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme/issues/90

Let us know if you need more help.

[vadviktor]

Is it a Mac related issue? I am certainly not experiencing it in any of my Linux terminals, with or without transparency applied.

[caiogondim]

Guess it is related to the shell application you are using. I'm closing this issue.

You can reopen if it is not clear.

Cheers.

[srrvnn]

i see this issue while using Terminal.app. and changing transparency increases the difference in color for the Tomorrow Night Eighties theme. any luck fixing this once and for all?

[alexcowell]

@srrvnn I also had this issue with Terminal.app.

The fix is to set an explicit background colour for the last arrow, although please note that this will only work if the terminal background is set to 100% opacity, otherwise it will look weird.

I modified the prompt_end() function in bullet-train.zsh-theme like so:

prompt_end() {
  if [[ -n $CURRENT_BG ]]; then
    echo -n " %{%K{$BULLETTRAIN_PROMPT_BG}%F{$CURRENT_BG}%}$SEGMENT_SEPARATOR%{%k%}"
  else
  ...
}

What this does is, for the final prompt arrow, set the background colour to BULLETTRAIN_PROMPT_BG, then reset afterwards. This prevents Terminal.app from increasing the brightness of the final arrow character, while preserving your colour scheme.

Simply set BULLETTRAIN_PROMPT_BG in your .zshrc to the ANSI colour code of your background theme and you should be good to go!

For example, in my case the prompt looked like this:

After applying the above fix to the theme and setting BULLETTRAIN_PROMPT_BG=15 in my .zshrc my prompt now looks like this:

[CodeCommander]

Any reason to not make this change in the default bullet-train.zsh-theme file?