My iterm2 can only use basic colors

Question

my iterm2 can only use basic colors.. I had tried the following 2 tricks but neither of them worked:

1. set the "minimum contrast" to low
2. set the report terminal type to "xterm-256color" (echo $TERM shows: xterm-256color)

any other suggestions? Thx

Answer 1

Download the solarized color scheme from Here

Import to your profile then Load Preset select dark background or light background.

I only have a basic color setup for command line prompts, see following picture.

If you want more fancy setups, have a look at this page Bash prompt Or checkout Zsh schemes oh-my-zsh

Following is the section related to my command prompt in my .bash_profile file. I am also using Solarized color scheme for my iTerm2, keep that in mind.

  BLACK='\e[0;30m'
  BLUE='\e0;34m'
  BROWN='\e[0;33m'
  CYAN='\e[0;36m'
  DARKGRAY='\e[1;30m'
  GRAY='\e[0;37m'
  GREEN='\e[32m'
  LIGHTBLUE='\e[1;34m'
  LIGHTCYAN='\e[1;36m'
  LIGHTGRAY='\e[0;37m'
  LIGHTGREEN='\e[1;32m'
  LIGHTPURPLE='\e[1;35m'
  LIGHTRED='\e[1;31m'
  PURPLE='\e[0;35'
  RED='\e[0;31m'
  YELLOW='\e[1;33m'
  NC='\e[m'

  PS1="\`if [[ \$EUID -eq 0 ]]; then PCT='\[$LIGHTRED\]';
  else PCT='\[$LIGHTCYAN\]'; fi;
  echo '\[$NC\]['\$PCT'\u\[$YELLOW\]@\[$GREEN\]\h:\w\[$NC\]]\[$GRAY\] : \[$NC\]'\`"