Installation & Activation
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This is a living document which means it is work in progress, not completed yet and can change at any time while the project is still in development major version zero
0.y.z!
The theme must be used with a Nord terminal emulator theme in order to work properly!
Make sure to install one of the currently supported terminal emulator port projects before installing Nord dircolors.
dircolors uses the 16 color codes provided by the terminal emulator.
When used with another color theme than the one provided by one of Nord's terminal emulator ports, the colors for dircolors won't use Nord's color palettes!
This will result in different styles than those defined by Nord dircolors and could make it appear that there is a problem with the theme while the actual problem are missing Nord colors.
Read the GitHub Gist about terminal colors for more information about terminal color specifications.
Installation
Nord dircolors can be installed for all application that respect the LS_COLORS environment variable like GNU core utils ls, tree or modern projects like fd.
To automatically load Nord dircolors for every shell session, download the dir_colors file and place it as ~/.dir_colors in your home directory.
Latest Development State
To always use the latest development state of Nord dircolors, clone the repository and create a symbolic link of the src/dir_colors file to ~/.dir_colors in your home directory afterwards:
ln -sr "$PWD/src/dir_colors" "~/.dir_colors"
Activation
To activate and use Nord dircolors as your default color theme for all sessions, load the theme with dircolors by adding the following snippet to the configuration file of your shell (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, …):
test -r "~/.dir_colors" && eval $(dircolors ~/.dir_colors)
