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Emacs highlighting using Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color scheme
http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
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Suffering from low contrast in Solarized (GUI) #88

Open amelio-vazquez-reina opened 11 years ago

amelio-vazquez-reina commented 11 years ago

I have installed the Solarized color-theme using package.el in the latest version of Emacs (24.3), but the colors seem to be off (dark):

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I read the following in the Emacs color-theme Solarized documentation:

If you are going to use Solarized in Terminal mode (i.e. not in a GUI version like Cocoa or X11 Emacs), please please please consider setting your terminal emulator's colorscheme to use the Solarized palette.

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The Solarized repository includes palettes for some popular terminal emulator as well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official Solarized homepage.

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Again, I recommend just changing your terminal colors to Solarized values either manually or via one of the many terminal schemes available for import.

This made me wonder if I am suffering from this problem. However the snapshot above is from Emacs on a GUI (Gtk) (i.e. not from running Emacs with -nw option)

Either way: How can I change my terminal emulator's colorscheme to use Solarized values? I have git cloned the solarized repository but I don't know what I am supposed to do with it.

In case it matters:

  1. I do not have admin access to the machine where Emacs is installed
  2. I am running the latest stable version of Emacs.
  3. I connect remotely with ssh -X from a GNOME terminal from Ubuntu (latest version) on my local machine. GNOME terminal seems to be version 3.6.0ubuntu.
cocreature commented 11 years ago

I have exactly the same problem. Also the problem has nothing to do with the terminal colors as they seem to correct, see solarized. I checked the color codes using grabc and they are the same in both versions. Somehow emacs in gui mode seems to display everything darker.

sellout commented 9 years ago

Could you try toggling the value of solarized-broken-srgb and see if that fixes the GUI colors? (and let me know what happens)

As far as the terminal colors, in that github repository, there might be a directory with settings for your terminal (EG, “iterm2-colors-solarized” if you’re using iTerm2). Otherwise, try installing the xresources from that repo or manually set the colors to match Solarized in your terminal’s preferences.