Philipp Bunge

I am not a fan of Gnome but ever since I installed an Ubuntu on my computer at work I have been a fan of using the Tango color theme for terminals. The colors feel smooth and work well in combination with semi-transparent terminal windows. I have applied the theme to other environments as well and when I recently started using Leopard on my new Macbook I realized I could not simply change the ANSI colors like I had previously on Tiger.

Turns out it is not so difficult on Leopard either, but you will need to install some additional software.

So, to get Tango colors in your terminal, follow the following instructions:

1. Download and install SIMBL which is a little hack to allow you to extend OS X applications.
2. Unpack Ciarán Walsh’s SIMBL plugin that adds customizable ANSI colors to Terminal.
3. Download and double click OS X Terminal Tango Theme.

Let me know if you have any comments.

Tags: bash, color, mac, os x, tango, terminal, theme, unix

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