Custom Terminal Colors on Leopard
The Apple terminal is arguably one of the places I spend the most time on my mac, but the program is quite lacking. Apple did a good job improving it in Leopard but they just didn’t quite fix everything that was broken.
Among its issues is the fact that there is no built-in way to handle changing the default colors. This probably makes sense if you’re looking at a white terminal with colored text on it. However if you’re like me and find black or very dark backgrounds less abusive to your eyes you’ve no doubt found some of the colors utterly miserable to read, especially blues.
Well after find out that a co-worker was having similar issues I did some digging and found an absolutely amazing SIMBL plugin by Ciaran Walsh (of TextMate plugin fame) that fixes that. Check it out at his site. It’s probably one of the more useful plugins I have.
Screenshots and notes after the jump.
Note: Some people have had a little troubles with it and it does require some small amount of tomfoolery to get working. I had to duplicate my Pro theme, make the color changes and exit the settings window (with the red button, but I don’t know that it really matters) before it would preserve my state between sessions. But now that it works it’s pretty amazing.
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