theme.md

Available themes

Monokai

Solarized

Tomorrow Night

Larapaste

Customization

Modify ~/.rainbow_config.json and follow next instruction.

Examples are available in Themes folder

Custom config

• There is a file named exactly .rainbow_config.json and is placed at your home directory.
• Add color configurations to above file and follow json format.
• Comments as // or /*...*/ are allowed.
• Here is an example

{
    "DECORATED_NAME" : 198,
    "CYCLE_COLOR" :[198,57,166,50,179,74,112],
    "TWEET" : {
        "mynick"          : 179,
        "nick"            : 112,
        "clock"           : 57,
        "id"              : 166,
        "client"          : 74,
        "favorited"       : 50,
        "retweet_count"   : 50,
        "favorite_count"  : 198,
        "rt"              : 179,
        "link"            : 74,
        "hashtag"         : 198,
        "mytweet"         : 179,
        "keyword"         : "on_light_green"
    },

    "NOTIFICATION":{
        "source_nick"   : 112,
        "notify"        : 179,
        "clock"         : 57
    },

    "MESSAGE" : {
        "partner"       : 112,
        "me"            : 112,
        "partner_frame" : 198,
        "me_frame"      : 74,
        "sender"        : 112,
        "recipient"     : 112,
        "to"            : 50,
        "clock"         : 57,
        "id"            : 166
    },

    "PROFILE" : {
        "statuses_count"    : 112,
        "friends_count"     : 198,
        "followers_count"   : 57,
        "nick"              : 198,
        "profile_image_url" : 74,
        "description"       : 166,
        "location"          : 112,
        "url"               : 74,
        "clock"             : 57
    },

    "TREND" : {
        "url": 74
    },

    "CAL" : {
        "days": 57,
        "today": "on_light_blue"
    },

    "GROUP" : {
        "name": 112,
        "member": 57,
        "subscriber": 198,
        "mode": 112,
        "description": 166,
        "clock": 57
    }
}

Available Colors

There are 16 basic colors:

• default
• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• grey
• light_red
• light_green
• light_yellow
• light_blue
• light_magenta
• light_cyan
• white

These colors will be enough for almost terminals. But if your terminal can support 256 colors (check your $TERM variable!), you can even use 0 to 255 as the example above.

There are also background highlight colors like:

• on_default
• on_black
• on_red
• on_green
• on_yellow
• on_blue
• on_magenta
• on_cyan
• on_grey
• on_light_red
• on_light_green
• on_light_yellow
• on_light_blue
• on_light_magenta
• on_light_cyan
• on_white

Color reference can be found at bash colors or 256 xterm colors.

Available options

• DECORATED_NAME: color of your Twitter's username which is placed at every line's begin.
• CYCLE_COLOR: list of colors from which Twitter real name 's color is selected.
  • Color selection is cycle through this list but with memoization.
  • It's means that same names will appear in same colors.
• TWEET: colors of parts in a tweet's ouput.
  • mynick : color for your Twitter username.
  • nick : color for other Twitter username.
  • clock: color for time of tweet.
  • id: color for tweet's id.
  • client: color for used Twitter client.
  • favorite: color for the star symbol when a tweet is favorited by you.
  • retweet_count: color for retweets count.
  • favorite_count: color for favorites count.
  • rt: color for RT word in tweet's content.
  • link: color for an url.
  • hashtag: color for a hashtag.
  • mytweet: color for tweet's text from yourself.
  • keyword: color for highlighted keyword (in tweets search).
• NOTIFICATION: colors of notification events.
  • source_nick: color for user's username.
  • notify: color for notification message.
  • clock: color for time of notification event.
• MESSAGE: colors of parts in message's output.
  • partner: color for partner.
  • me: color for authenticated user.
  • partner_frame: color for partner's frame.
  • me_frame: color for authenticated user's frame.
  • sender: color for sender's username.
  • recipient: color for recipient's username.
  • to: color for the >>> symbol.
  • clock: color for time of message.
  • id: color for message's id.
• PROFILE: colors for parts in profile's ouput.
  • statuses_count: color for statuses count.
  • friends_count: color for friends count.
  • followers_count: color for followers count.
  • nick: color for Twitter username.
  • profile_image_url: color for profile image url.
  • description: color for description.
  • location: color for location.
  • url: color for url.
  • clock: color for joined time.
• TREND: colors for trend's output:
  • url: color for trend's url.
• CAL: colors for calendar's output:
  • days: color for days in current month.
  • today: color for today.
• GROUP: colors for twitter list output:
  • name: color for twitter list's name.
  • member: color member count.
  • subscriber: color subscriber count.
  • mode: color twitter list's mode.
  • description: color twitter list's description.
  • clock: color twitter list's created time.

Theme usage

While entered Rainbow Stream:

• theme and hit ENTER to see which is available.
• theme + TAB twice will show themes list instantly.
• theme monokai will apply monokai theme immediately. You can use TAB key for theme's name autocompletion.

Theme contribution

I appreciate any contribution for themes for this app. Please add a file to themes folder (json format!) and create a pull request with a screenshot.