Themes

Run /theme in the TUI to pick a theme. Moving through the list previews each theme. Enter keeps it; Escape puts the previous one back. The choice is saved for this home.

System takes its colors from your terminal. Every other theme is a fixed palette.

Your own themes

Put your themes in tui-themes.json at the root of your home, next to config.json:

{
  "themes": {
    "my-dusk": {
      "label": "My Dusk",
      "description": "purple, softer text",
      "extends": "vera-purple",
      "text": "#CFCBE0",
      "accent": "#B79CFF"
    }
  }
}

• The key (my-dusk) is the theme’s name. label is what the picker shows, and defaults to the name. description is optional.
• extends copies another theme, then your colors replace its colors. It can name a built-in theme or one defined earlier in the same file.
• Without extends, a theme lists every color.
• A theme with a built-in’s name replaces that built-in in the list.
• system and orng are reserved. Orng is the fallback theme and cannot be changed, though your themes can extend it.

Colors are written as #RRGGBB. The color names are accent, text, muted, notice, danger, success, critical, secondary, focus, inactive, activityTrail, dangerSurface, diffAdded, diffRemoved, code, background, panel, element, input, menu, and selectionText. chrome is "plain" or "norton". hud optionally recolors the HUD with background, border, text, muted, accent, notice, success, and auto.

Vera reads the file at start and each time /theme opens, so an edit shows up the next time you open the picker. A theme with a mistake is left out, and the transcript names the file, the theme, and what is wrong with it. The other themes still load. If the theme you picked is left out, Vera uses Orng until you fix it.