TIP On a Mac with a wide color display, you can use the standard color panel to select and preview P3 colors and compare them with sRGB colors. System Colors macOS offers a range of standard system colors that automatically adapt to vibrancy (see Translucency and Vibrancy ) and changes in accessibility settings like Increase contrast and Reduce. Aside from picking a color that better suits your preferences, changing the highlight color can also be helpful in conjunction with the Increase Contrast option in Mac OS X as well as Dark Mode to make user interface elements a bit obvious in modern versions of the Mac operating system. When I worked on Mac OS X in the lab I was able to get the terminal colors from using Terminal (rather than X11) and then editing the profile (from the Mac menu bar). The interface is a bit odd on the colors, but you have to set the modified theme as default. Further settings worked by editing.bashrc.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X. I wrote a bit about it in my Macworld column this week, and also put together a little Mac OS X timeline.
I've written a lot about Mac OS X over the years. Compiling that timeline reminded me of that. I was a features editor at Macworld when Apple began shipping OS X precursors, and so I edited most of our early coverage. Beginning with Mac OS X 10.1, I wrote most of Macworld's big feature stories covering each release.
I've lived in the same house since 1999, so I have spent many springs and summers sitting out in my yard under our redwood tree writing and editing articles about Mac OS X, OS X, and now macOS.
How many? This many:
- OS X Prehistory (compiled by me from multiple Macworld features)
Wow, that's a lot of operating-system releases. Here's to the next uncountable number of them.
(While I wrote shorter reviews for Macworld, John Siracusa was always reviewing OS X at length for Ars Technica. Here's a list of all his reviews.)
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Lost Colors Mac Os X
I ended up using pretty normal colors for the file types that were giving me problems:
I ended up using pretty normal colors for the file types that were giving me problems:
My zshrc is almost completely platform independent, but I doubt this is very portable. Maybe I'll come back to it.
Lost Colors Mac Os Catalina
Summary
So, inclusion:Mac Os Catalina
- Exit screen before messing with colors
- Read the ls man page to make sure that you're:
- changing the correct variable (LSCOLORS in Mac OS X)
- representing your desired colors in the desired format
As always, you can find my current shell setup files on github.