PowerShell Monokai Theme

Installation

• Warning: installation below changes registry irreversibly. You may want to create backup of the items mentioned in colors.reg before proceed.

• Clone or download the git repo

  git clone https://github.com/seven-two-eight/ps-monokai-theme.git

• Run install.ps1 with administrator privilege from the repo folder to import registry and PowerShell profile.

  • Or you can do this manually by double clicking colors.reg, and then copy Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 from the repo folder to $HOME\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1.

  • The profile script works for PowerShell 5 and some versions of PowerShell 6 (depending on your version of PSReadline module).

• Restart all PowerShell instances to see effect.

  • Note each shortcut of powershell.exe has its own color pallets. You need to recreate such shortcut to see the effect.
  • If you use VS Code, you can enforce the integrated terminal background color by setting:

    "workbench.colorCustomizations" : {"terminal.background" : "#272822"}

Screenshots

Credits

• colors.reg is inspired by HKCU-Console.reg from the archived repo https://github.com/ntwb/posh-monokai.
• Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 is set up to reproduce Cmder-style prompt.
• Monokai color scheme is created by Wimer Hazenberg (correct me if I'm wrong).