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Changing kitty colors
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The themes kitten allows you to easily change color themes, from a collection
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of almost 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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The kitten allows you to pick a theme, with live previews of the colors. You
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can choose between light and dark themes and search by theme name by just
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typing a 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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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
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any 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 kitty config directory, usually,
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:file:`~/.config/kitty/themes` and the kitten will automatically add them to
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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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If you wish to contribute a new theme to the kitty theme repository, simply
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go to `kitty-themes <https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes>`_ and open a pull request
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asking to add your contributions to the repository. Use the file
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:download:`template.conf <https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty-themes/raw/master/template.conf>` as
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a template when creating your theme.
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Changing the theme non-interactively
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You can specify the theme name as an argument when invoking the kitten
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to have 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
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instances. See below for more details on non-interactive operation.
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.. include:: ../generated/cli-kitten-themes.rst
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