Kuan

September 20, 2022

Set a Kitty theme and everyone follow suit

Before I nuked my Kakoune, Kitty, nnn and jrnl config folders, I used to set the theme on all CLI Apps I used in my Kitty. It never occurred to me that these CLI Apps may use my terminal colors directly if I never asked them to use their own colors. I was wrong. Earned another lesson from my painful nuke-my-config-lol lesson yesterday night.

Kitty made it super easy to change themes: just use the kittens. Type `kitty +kittens themes` into a kitty terminal and a wonderful TUI Apps will show all the available themes and let you choose the one you fancy. Changing the theme is as simple as doing the whole kitten thing again.

I remembered I spent a great deal of time perfecting my Kakoune colorscheme against my Kitty's colors. Now I just choose a nice Kitty themes and use Kakoune default colorscheme. So simple, yet it took a great pain for me to learn about this.

Yes, I still can't get over my stupid nuke-all-config-lol mistake.

About Kuan

Web developer building with Flutter, Svelte and JavaScript. Recently fell in love with functional programming.

Malaysian. Proud Sabahan. Ex game developer but still like playing games.

New found hobby is outdoor camping with my love.