Displays as white text, black background for me #2

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opened 2026-05-15 18:59:09 +00:00 by stephen · 2 comments

stephen commented

2026-05-15 18:59:09 +00:00

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Imported from stephenway/monokai.terminal#2 — originally opened by @mcandre on 2013-02-18

I'm not seeing the usual wacky colors of Monokai using the monokai.terminal palette. It's just showing up as white text on a black background.

Could you give a screenshot of what monokai.terminal is supposed to look like?

Maybe some other Terminal.app setting is preventing the colors from showing?

System:

$ specs os
Specs:

specs 0.2
https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version'
      System Version: OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

*Imported from [stephenway/monokai.terminal#2](https://github.com/stephenway/monokai.terminal/issues/2) — originally opened by @mcandre on 2013-02-18* --- I'm not seeing the usual wacky colors of Monokai using the monokai.terminal palette. It's just showing up as white text on a black background. Could you give a screenshot of what monokai.terminal is supposed to look like? Maybe some other Terminal.app setting is preventing the colors from showing? System: ``` $ specs os Specs: specs 0.2 https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version' System Version: OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) ```

stephen commented

2026-05-15 18:59:10 +00:00

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Originally posted by @mcandre on 2013-02-18

Ah, CLICOLOR needs to be set to 0. Adding this to ~/.profile brought out the monokai colors :)

export CLICOLOR=1

*Originally posted by @mcandre on 2013-02-18* --- Ah, `CLICOLOR` needs to be set to `0`. Adding this to `~/.profile` brought out the monokai colors :) ``` export CLICOLOR=1 ```

stephen commented

2026-05-15 18:59:10 +00:00

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Originally posted by @stephenway on 2013-02-18

Glad you figured it out! Enjoy 😄

*Originally posted by @stephenway on 2013-02-18* --- Glad you figured it out! Enjoy :smile:

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2026-05-15 18:59:10 +00:00