I'm running emacs-nox 23.3 in Konsole (from kde) emulator, the most color themes have strange colors.
For example, i like the Solarized Theme. I expect the theme should look like this:
Solarized Theme http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/img/screen-ruby-dark.png
However, this is what I get:
Broken Solarized Theme http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3881/voronoi2.png
Most of themes that comes in emacs-color-theme package have similar behavior. I tried to change the Konsole color settings - no result. I also tried to replace my .Xresources with this one, with no success.
You need 256 colors in your terminal for most color themes to have decent appearance. Try adding this to your .bashrc (or .zshrc):
TERM=xterm-256color
After you've sourced the setting (source .bashrc
), start again emacs and hopefully the themes will be looking much better.
No, do not put this line
TERM=xterm-256color
to .Xresources. Try to run emacs with this command:
TERM=xterm-256color emacs
and if everything is ok, put this line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file:
alias emacs='TERM=xterm-256color emacs'
After that your can execute emacs with usual 'emacs' cmd and get the normal colors in editor.