Reputation: 1505

Powershell Color Schemes?

Is there a place where I can find Powershell Color Schemes that people have already built? Something like https://github.com/lysyi3m/osx-terminal-themes, but for Windows Powershell instead of OSX.

I did find this one: https://github.com/Segaso/MonokaiTheme, but I'm confused as to where I find this "Tools". When I right click on the top of any PowerShell window, all I see is this:

And this is all I see under properties:

Upvotes: 24

Answers (6)

F451

Reputation: 1

I needed "PowerShell syntax colors" changed, but I didn't want to run the ISE. Using a modern system that only had PowerShell 5.x, I had to do the following:

# This shows current settings (including colors for commands, comments, ...)
  Get-PSReadLineOption

# Setup a hash table with new colors (cuz that is how it is done) 
  $ISETheme = @{
    Command                = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Comment                = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    ContinuationPrompt     = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Default                = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Emphasis               = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Error                  = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Keyword                = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Member                 = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    InlinePrediction       = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    ListPrediction         = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Selection              = "$([char]0x1b)[35;43m"
    Number                 = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Operator               = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Parameter              = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    String                 = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Type                   = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    Variable               = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
    ListPredictionSelected = "$([char]0x1b)[30m"
  }

#Change the colors
  Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors $ISETheme

Documentation on using Set-PSReadLineOption

Using "FromRGB", IF you have PowerSHell 7.2

To make the change permanent, add it to your PowerShell startup script.

FULL answer on Setup PowerShell $Profile

A Short incomplete answer is to type in PowerShell: notepad $Profile

Above is a monochrome "30=black text" pallet, Below are other colors

               Foreground    Background
No Color     normal bright  normal bright
0  black      30        90      40    100
1  red        31        91      41    101
2  green      32        92      42    102
3  yellow     33        93      43    103
4  blue       34        94      44    104
5  violet     35        95      45    105
6  turqoise   36        96      46    106
7  grey       37        97      47    107

good example of using escape sequences in PowerShell

In addition, you may also want to follow posts above from:

Mustkeem K: "$Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = ...

wheeeee: Original question on setting "Windows Powershell->properties->colors" menu

Upvotes: 0

Samufi

Reputation: 2710

Tagging on to the response by @user6811411, you could also use the entire Windows Terminal app, which integrates the colour tool and is available from the Microsoft Store. In the app's settings, you can change the colour scheme quite easily.

The colour will only be changed for PowerShell sessions started from within the app, but I find it quite useful to organize all my terminals in one window, so that this was not a big downside for me. I also liked the option to define customized shells.

Upvotes: 1

Mustkeem K

Reputation: 8768

Its easy. You can run these commands in powershell. This is a custom made color scheme.

$Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = ($bckgrnd = 'Black')
$Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = 'White'
$Host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = 'DarkRed'
$Host.PrivateData.ErrorBackgroundColor = $bckgrnd
$Host.PrivateData.WarningForegroundColor = 'Yellow'
$Host.PrivateData.WarningBackgroundColor = $bckgrnd
$Host.PrivateData.DebugForegroundColor = 'Yellow'
$Host.PrivateData.DebugBackgroundColor = $bckgrnd
$Host.PrivateData.VerboseForegroundColor = 'Green'
$Host.PrivateData.VerboseBackgroundColor = $bckgrnd
$Host.PrivateData.ProgressForegroundColor = 'Blue'
$Host.PrivateData.ProgressBackgroundColor = $bckgrnd
Clear-Host

If you want to have your own scheme you can choose colors as you wish.

To get the list of the colors. Run below command.

get-help write-host

You will get all colors available for powershell.

Upvotes: 24

user6811411

Reputation:

Microsoft itself released last year Windows Console Colortool

It works with/modifes the palette of any console app (cmd/Powershell/WSL-bash).

The colortool will work with any .itermcolors scheme.

download from github

Upvotes: 25

as - if

Reputation: 3297

I use this for the color scheme.it has solarized-dark theme. Make sure you backup your current preset with concfg export console-backup.json once you have installed scoop and concfg. For more use this link https://github.com/lukesampson/concfg

Upvotes: 2

Bonneau21

Reputation: 586

You will find this in ISE Powershell

Upvotes: 3

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