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joharr
joharr

Reputation: 535

basic configuration of Jekyll minima theme

I'm having some difficulties beginning configuration of minima theme for Jekyll. The theme is Jekyll's default, appears to be extremely popular, and the instructions in the README appear straightforward, though I can't get them to work. I might be doing something obviously wrong that someone here can see.

Here are the (annonymised) active lines from my _config.yml:

title: IT thoughts...
author:
  name: joharr
  email: <myemailaddress>
description:
  Self-taught geekology...
baseurl: ""
url: <me>.github.io
twitter_username: <mine>
github_username:  <mine>

minima:
  skin: dark  # having no effect

theme: minima

- no dark skin applied. So I made assets/css/ in the root of my site and copied the theme's assets/css/style.scss there, then:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve
...
style.scss:1: Error: File to import not found or unreadable: minima/skins/classic. (SassC::SyntaxError)
    on line 1:1 of style.scss
>> @import
...

- what!? I have to start copying over chains of the theme's SASS to do the slightest tweak? No idea now how to follow the theme's instructions and feel like one of the million plus happy users...

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3350

Answers (1)

joharr
joharr

Reputation: 535

I've figured it out - the answer's here, Massively confused on how to use this theme's dark mode #599

Minima's dark skin is an unreleased feature. It is available only via this repository.
For that, you may use the ''jekyll-remote-theme'' plugin.

  • theme: minima -> minima, the occasionally updated gem
  • remote_theme: jekyll/minima -> minima, the up-to-date repository on GitHub

Upvotes: 8

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