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Themes seem to sometimes not work through WSL #7162

Closed jquesada2016 closed 1 year ago

jquesada2016 commented 1 year ago

Summary

When running Helix within WSL, through a terminal emulator, such as the new Windows terminal emulator, or Alacritty, then themes seem to not be applied, and instead I get only black-and-white styling:

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However, when I access helix through WSL, from, for example an integrated terminal within VS Code, themes work fine!

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Not sure what's going on here. The runtime files, and themes definitely seem to be there, since VS Code's terminal is able to pick up the colors.

Reproduction Steps

I tried installing from package manager, as well as building from lates master, then switched to latest 23.05. I also tried using both `HELIX_RUNTIME` environment variables, as well as symlinking the runtime files into `~/.config/helix/runtime`. Nothing worked, besides running Helix within WSL inside VS Code I expected this to happen: Themes to work, regardless of the terminal emulator I used. Instead, this happened: Theme colors only seemed to be applied when attaching through VS Code's integrated terminal. ### Helix log
~/.cache/helix/helix.log ``` 2023-05-27T19:31:59.413 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: Unsupported theme: theme requires true color support ```
### Platform Ubuntu through WSL on Windows 11 ### Terminal Emulator Alacritty v0.11.0 and Windows Terminal version 1.16.10262.0 ### Helix Version helix 23.05
jquesada2016 commented 1 year ago

Looking at the log attached above, I noticed it says true color support is required, which is strange, because both Alacritty and Windows Terminal support true color...so not sure how to trubleshoot this.

kirawi commented 1 year ago

It's not picked up when running WSL. You can override detection in your config: https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html