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Changing kitty colors
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The themes kitten allows you to easily change color themes, from a collection of
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over two hundred pre-built themes available at `kitty-themes
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<https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes>`_. To use it, simply run::
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kitty +kitten themes
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.. image:: ../screenshots/themes.png
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:alt: The themes kitten in action
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:width: 600
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The kitten allows you to pick a theme, with live previews of the colors. You can
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choose between light and dark themes and search by theme name by just typing a
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few characters from the name.
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The kitten maintains a list of recently used themes to allow quick switching.
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If you want to restore the colors to default, you can do so by choosing the
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``Default`` theme.
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.. versionadded:: 0.23.0
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The themes kitten
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How it works
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----------------
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A theme in kitty is just a :file:`.conf` file containing kitty settings.
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When you select a theme, the kitten simply copies the :file:`.conf` file
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to :file:`~/.config/kitty/current-theme.conf` and adds an include for
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:file:`current-theme.conf` to :file:`kitty.conf`. It also comments out any
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existing color settings in :file:`kitty.conf` so they do not interfere.
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Once that's done, the kitten sends kitty a signal to make it reload its config.
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Using your own themes
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-----------------------
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You can also create your own themes as :file:`.conf` files. Put them in the
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:file:`themes` sub-directory of the :ref:`kitty config directory <confloc>`,
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usually, :file:`~/.config/kitty/themes`. The kitten will automatically add them
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to the list of themes. You can use this to modify the builtin themes, by giving
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the conf file the name :file:`Some theme name.conf` to override the builtin
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theme of that name. Note that after doing so you have to run the kitten and
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choose that theme once for your changes to be applied.
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Contributing new themes
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-------------------------
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If you wish to contribute a new theme to the kitty theme repository, start by
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going to the `kitty-themes <https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes>`__
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repository. `Fork it
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<https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo>`__, and use the
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file :download:`template.conf
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<https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes/raw/master/template.conf>` as a
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template when creating your theme. Once you are satisfied with how it looks,
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`submit a pull request
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<https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request>`__
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to have your theme merged into the `kitty-themes
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<https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes>`__ repository, which will make it
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available in this kitten automatically.
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Changing the theme non-interactively
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---------------------------------------
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You can specify the theme name as an argument when invoking the kitten to have
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it change to that theme instantly. For example::
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kitty +kitten themes --reload-in=all Dimmed Monokai
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Will change the theme to ``Dimmed Monokai`` in all running kitty instances. See
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below for more details on non-interactive operation.
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.. include:: ../generated/cli-kitten-themes.rst
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