So in order for irssi to display the Solarized palette, you have to set your
Terminal emulator's color settings to the Solarized palette. The [Solarized
repository] includes theme settings for some popular terminal emulators as
-well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official [Solarized
-homepage]. If you use the irssi themes *without* having changed your
+well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official [Solarized]
+homepage. If you use the irssi themes *without* having changed your
emulator's palette, you will get a strange selection of colors that may be
hard to read.
based on the characteristics of the text characters to be displayed:
- Visibility generally follows importance, with an attempt to let unimportant
- text fade into the background (which is not always possible when supporting
- both dark and light backgrounds)
+ text fade into the background (which is not always possible when
+ simultaneously supporting dark and light backgrounds)
- Loud colors are chosen to call attention to noteworthy messages
### Supported Scripts ###
The following third-party scripts are supported:
+
- [adv\_windowlist.pl](http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/Irssi/)
- [usercount.pl](http://scripts.irssi.org/html/usercount.pl.html)
- [trackbar.pl](http://scripts.irssi.org/html/trackbar.pl.html)
2. It's recommended to turn off the display of bold typeface for bold text. For
example,
- - For iTerm on OS X, this means that Text Preferences should have the
+ - For iTerm2 on OS X, this means that Text Preferences should have the
`Draw bold text in bold font` checkbox *unselected*.
- For Apple's Terminal.app on OS X, this means that Text Settings
should have the `Use bold fonts` checkbox *unselected*.
-2. Obtain solarized-universal.theme
+ Example: for iTerm2, these are the correct settings:
+
+ ![iTerm bold settings](https://github.com/huyz/irssi-colors-solarized/raw/master/img/screen-iTerm2-bold-options.png)
+
+2. Obtain `solarized-universal.theme`
a) Option A: Download `solarized-universal.theme` from [irssi-only repository]
and place it in your `~/.irssi` directory