Konsole.colorscheme: Explanation of how the definitions are used

[MichaKDE]

A .colorscheme for konsole, f.e. this one

has colors:

• Foreground
• Background
  and
• Color 1
  …
• Color8
  for each defining a Normal, Faint and Intense value.

Is there any description, where these definitions are used? I guess:

• machine’s name is color 3 intense
• actual directory is foreground intense
• $ ls <Directories> are color 5 intense
• …

Such a full list would be helpful for me. Thank You!

[luisbocanegra]

Here we go, hopefully I got everything right, if not please let me know.

To apply these colors you use ANSI escape codes (highly recommend reading that page) like this or whatever abstraction your shell (or prompt generator) uses.

Here’s a table of what each color maps to:

Name	ANSI Code	ANSI definition	Konsole Normal	Konsole Bold	Konsole Faint
Foreground	\033[39m	Usually text	[Foreground]	[ForegroundIntense]	ForegroundFaint
Background	\033[49m	Usually Background	[Background]	[BackgroundIntense]	[BackgroundFaint]
Color 1	\033[30m	Black	[Color0]	[Color0Intense]	[Color0Faint]
Color 2	\033[31m	Red	[Color1]	[Color1Intense]	[Color1Faint]
Color 3	\033[32m	Green	[Color2]	[Color2Intense]	[Color2Faint]
Color 4	\033[33m	Yellow	[Color3]	[Color3Intense]	[Color3Faint]
Color 5	\033[34m	Blue	[Color4]	[Color4Intense]	[Color4Faint]
Color 6	\033[35m	Magenta	[Color5]	[Color5Intense]	[Color5Faint]
Color 7	\033[36m	Cyan	[Color6]	[Color6Intense]	[Color6Faint]
Color 8	\033[37m	White	[Color7]	[Color7Intense]	[Color7Faint]

To change the style of the color you append these escape codes to the color:

Style	ANSI Code
Normal (the default)	\033[0m
Bold (bright, intense)	\033[1m
Faint (decreased intensity, dim)	\033[2m

Example:

print -P "\033[2m \033[31m Faint red"
print -P "\033[0m \033[31m Normal red"
print -P "\033[1m \033[31m Bold red"

Here’s a function I have in my shell config that prints these colors:

function testcolors() {
    DEFAULT="\033[39m"
    RESET="\033[0m"
    NORMAL="\033[22m" # Normal color or intensity Neither bold nor faint
    BOLD="\033[1m"    # Bold or (bad behavior) increased intensity
    FAINT="\033[2m"

    echo -e "${BOLD}${DEFAULT}DEF(39)    BLA   RED   GRE   YEL   BLU   MAG   CYA   WHI"

    echo -e -n "${RESET}${BOLD}${DEFAULT} Bold     "
    for i in {30..37}; do
        printf "\e[${i}m %d  " "$i"
    done
    printf "\e[0m\n"

    echo -e -n "${RESET}${NORMAL} Intense  "
    for i in {30..37}; do
        printf "\e[${i}m %d  " "$i"
    done
    printf "\e[0m\n"


    echo -e -n "${RESET}${NORMAL} Normal   "
    for i in {30..37}; do
        printf "\e[${i}m %d  " "$i"
    done
    printf "\e[0m\n"

    echo -e -n "${RESET}${FAINT} Faint    "
    for i in {30..37}; do
        printf "\e[${i}m %d  " "$i"
    done
    printf "\e[0m\n"
}

[MichaKDE]

Thanks a lot, much of your input is important for me.
But in addition to that I would like to know, where the definitions are used, f.e.

• Foreground = Usually text, but where is ForegroundIntense or ForegroundFaint used?
• Background = Usually Background, but where is BackgroundIntense or BackgroundFaint Used?

[luisbocanegra]

• Foreground = Usually text, but where is ForegroundIntense or ForegroundFaint used?

Intense variant is usually used to add emphasis to text, and faint to decrease it.

So intense would be used for bold (important) text, and faint for text that is supposed to have lower emphasis so it shows as dim

Where are they used or if they are used at all depends on the CLI program your are running. For example ls command uses them, another good examples that use a lot of colors are htop or btop.

Please note that in total there are 256 colors, konsole (and most terminals) only change a small subset of them.