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Yep I get that cterm is what it uses when in console. The thing is I have no .Xresources file and nothing in my .Xdefaults that sets color other thmaybe an foreground and background. None of the colors are redefined. The only thing I could imagine is if the author had an .Xdefaults/.Xresources defined that differed from the defaults. But it seems that every 256 color termial theme I use varies significantly from what they're supposed to look like. Is there some other file that sets colors I'm missing?

jmathew
– jmathew

2012-08-13 15:39:45 +00:00
Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 15:39
I think that if we speak about X11, .Xdefaults and .Xresources are the only files involved (been the former deprecated in Archlinux systems). Of course, the default terminal colors have to live in some place and may be different given various linux distributions. Also, we can't forget that terminal emulators like Gnome Terminal can have custom colors or use the system's, as we can't know for sure if the creator of the theme used custom colors or not, though it's very plausible. Any freak that, like me, have ever made a vim theme, sure has their terminal colors customized.

Alex
– Alex

2012-08-15 16:02:52 +00:00
Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 16:02

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