How to make eix in Gentoo look good with the Solarized colourscheme
Published: Friday, August 14, 2020
Something that has always been bothering me with the tool eix is the default colours when you use the Solarized colourscheme for your terminal emulator.
Thankfully I found a solution to that today and eix looks a lot better for me now. Here’s a comparison with a before and after images:
I found the solution in this post over at the Gentoo forums. The solution is to simply set the variable SOLARIZED=true
in your shell. You do this with the command export SOLARIZED=true
. If you want to make it permanent you just add it to your configuration file for your shell.