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I really like nmtui but damn, the color scheme SUCKS:

5000 sats for who tells me how to fix this in a way that ONLY affects nmtui.

$ echo $XTERM
tmux-256color

bonus sats if you're using the catppuccin mocha colors

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133 sats \ 2 replies \ @geeknik 19 Apr

You can inject your own color config using:

sudoedit /etc/newt/palette

Or better:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nmtui
cp /etc/newt/palette ~/.config/nmtui/palette

Then edit your alias:

alias nmtui='NEWT_COLORS=$(<~/.config/nmtui/palette) nmtui'

You can tweak the palette like:

root=white,black
border=black,brightblue
window=gray,black
title=brightwhite,black
button=black,gray
button_active=brightwhite,blue
checkbox=green,black

Catppuccin Mocha-inspired tweaks:

root=lavender,crust
border=sapphire,base
window=overlay0,base
title=rosewater,crust
button=surface2,lavender
button_active=crust,maroon

To apply:

export NEWT_COLORS=$(<~/.config/nmtui/palette)
nmtui

BONUS One-liner:

alias nmtui='NEWT_COLORS="root=lavender,crust border=sapphire,base window=overlay0,base title=rosewater,crust button=surface2,lavender button_active=crust,maroon" nmtui'

Replace the color names with Xterm-256-compatible ones or hex via terminal emulators that support truecolor.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fauxfoe 9 Jun

This is the dark palette I use. Sharing it because people might want to see all the element names:

root=white,black border=black,lightgray window=lightgray,lightgray shadow=black,gray title=black,lightgray button=black,cyan actbutton=white,cyan compactbutton=black,lightgray checkbox=black,lightgray actcheckbox=lightgray,cyan entry=black,lightgray disentry=gray,lightgray label=black,lightgray listbox=black,lightgray actlistbox=black,cyan sellistbox=lightgray,black actsellistbox=lightgray,black textbox=black,lightgray acttextbox=black,cyan emptyscale=,gray fullscale=,cyan helpline=white,black roottext=lightgrey,black

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 19 Apr

Cool, this works!

I have to tweak it a little to make it look better but this already helped me a lot. I will pay you the bounty.

However, I see you don't have a horse which means you don't have a wallet attached. Do you want to attach a wallet first so you can receive sats?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 19 Apr

there's an available repo?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ooo 19 Apr

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 19 Apr

NEWT_COLORS='window=blue' nmtui

This doesn't seem to do anything

NEWT_COLORS='window=white,red border=white,red checkbox=white,red actcheckbox=white,green' nmtui

This at least changed something:

btw, did you use AI for this reply?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ooo 19 Apr freebie

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