Can't set colors with environment variable

[Matteo Di Lena]

Describe the bug
Setting custom colors via environment variables TYPEWRITTEN_COLOR_MAPPINGS and TYPEWRITTEN_COLORS doesn't seem to work for me, either when setting them on the fly or putting them into ~/.zshrc.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu Studio 20.04 (xfce)
• xfce4-terminal

[Robin Gagnon]

Hey @mdilena !

Thanks for the issue!

Can I take a peak at your .zshrc? I'll try out your config on my machine.

[Matteo Di Lena]

Hi @reobin , sure here's the content, it's pretty simple at the moment! I forgot to mention that I'm installing through oh-my-zsh into $ZSH_CUSTOM

# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH="/home/mdilena/.oh-my-zsh"

# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME="typewritten/typewritten"

# Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
# Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load
# a theme from this variable instead of looking in $ZSH/themes/
# If set to an empty array, this variable will have no effect.
# ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" )

# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion.
# Case-sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to automatically update without prompting.
# DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true"

# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment the following line if pasting URLs and other text is messed up.
# DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
# ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
# COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
# much, much faster.
# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
# stamp shown in the history command output.
# You can set one of the optional three formats:
# "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
# or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications,
# see 'man strftime' for details.
# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"

# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder

# Which plugins would you like to load?
# Standard plugins can be found in $ZSH/plugins/
# Custom plugins may be added to $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(git)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# User configuration

# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

# You may need to manually set your language environment
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
#   export EDITOR='vim'
# else
#   export EDITOR='mvim'
# fi

# Compilation flags
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# typewritten options
TYPEWRITTEN_RELATIVE_PATH="adaptive"

# auto-run tmux [from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux#Start_tmux_on_every_shell_login]
if command -v tmux >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "${DISPLAY}" ]; then
    # if not inside a tmux session, and if no session is started, start a new session
    [ -z "${TMUX}" ] && (tmux attach >/dev/null 2>&1 || tmux)
fi

# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
#
# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"

I tried with and without symlinks, as explained in the guide, just to see if there was any issue with $TYPEWRITTEN_ROOT not finding the correct path to subfolders, but no luck.

[Gabriel dos Santos Schmitz]

Actually I'm having the same problem, but more strange than just don't working, it don't work when I first open the terminal, but if i source .zshrc it works.

[Crystal Adkins]

@gabrielzschmitz I had this issue too, I had to move my customizations to before source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh. It works fine now

[Crystal Adkins]

Though I have noticed that TYPEWRITTEN_RELATIVE_PATH="off" doesn't work. While not directly related to colors, it is an ENV variable.
To get around it I've just forked the repo and created a layout exactly how I wanted then pulled that into my custom themes for oh-my-zsh. Not ideal but it works.

[Robin Gagnon]

@gabrielzschmitz @mdilena

Sorry for the delay! I have been very busy with my personal life.

@CrystalJewell Thank you for mentioning sourcing oh-my-zsh after anything related to the zsh prompt. That's expected for any zsh prompts. @gabrielzschmitz can you confirm if that works for you? If you have moved on, I'll close the issue, thanks for creating it!

As for the TYPEWRITTEN_RELATIVE_PATH="off" not working, I'll create an issue where we can feed it with more info.