Solarized dircolors / ls colors (for 256 color terminals)

This is a minimal fork of Sebastian Tramp's seebi/solarized/ls-colors-solarized

Usage

This dircolors database file uses solarized colors instead of the given terminal emulator palette. To use it, run this

eval `dircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb`

Typically, this file is copied or linked to ~/.dir_colors.

To be able to use it, you need a 256 color terminal (e.g. gnome-terminal or urxvt) and a correct TERM variable, e.g.:

export TERM=xterm-256color  # for common 256 color terminals
export TERM=screen-256color # for a tmux -2 session

Features / Properties

• solarized :-)
• comment style for backup and log files
• highlighted style for files of special interest (.tex, .pdf, ...)
• bold hierarchies:
  • archive = violet, compressed archive = violet + bold
  • audio = orange, video = orange + bold
• special files (block devices, pipes, ...) are inverted using the solarized light pallette for the background

Screenshots

Here are two screenshots of common and not so common use-cases. They are captured from a gnome-terminal using the dz-version of the awesome Inconsolata font.

Common colors in action

Executables, archives, audio/video stuff, dead links

Use-Case: Latex directory

tex-trash is in comment style and pdf+tex are main files of interest and highlighted.

All colors in action

uncommon stuff like pipes and block devices ...