This is a small tool for changing your terminal colors on the fly.

I use it to switch my entire tmux session between Solarized dark and light modes.

Your terminal must support the appropriate OSC escape sequences. xterm and urxvt (rxvt-unicode) work fine, whereas Terminal.app and iTerm won't recognize these sequences.

Make sure dynamicColors is enabled in .Xdefaults/.Xresources

xterm*dynamicColors: true urxvt*dynamicColors: on 

This changes your terminal background color to red if your terminal supports OCS:

echo -e "\033]11;#ff0000\007" 

1. Clone the repository into ~/.dynamic-colors:

    git clone https://github.com/sos4nt/dynamic-colors ~/.dynamic-colors 

2. To add the tool to your PATH put the following line in your profile (.bashrc/.zshrc/.profile).

    export PATH="$HOME/.dynamic-colors/bin:$PATH" 

3. For autocompletion add this to your profile (.bashrc/.zshrc/.profile). Change .zsh to .bash for bash environments.

    source $HOME/.dynamic-colors/completions/dynamic-colors.zsh 

List available color schemes:

dynamic-colors list 

Switch to a color scheme:

dynamic-colors switch solarized-dark 

Reload last color scheme:

dynamic-colors init 

Add this line to your profile to always set the last color scheme.

I'm using the provided color schemes in conjunction with dircolors-solarized and vim-colors-solarized for best results. Always use the dark mode and switch schemes with dynamic-colors switch <colorscheme>

Create a new color scheme (will be opened in your default editor):

dynamic-colors create my-color-scheme 

Edit an exising color scheme:

dynamic-colors edit my-color-scheme 

Check if all colors are defined:

dynamic-colors audit my-color-scheme 

Save this to a file named "urxvt-colors":

sub on_user_command{my ($self, $cmd) = @_; my $output = `dynamic-colors cycle`; $self->cmd_parse($output)} 

Add this to ~/.Xdefaults:

urxvt*perl-ext-common: urxvt-colors urxvt*perl-lib: [directoy of urxvt-colors] urxvt*keysym.F12: perl:urxvt-colors: 

Now you can cycle through all color schemes using F12 for example, without closing running console applications.