swirc.theme5

Overview

This manual page is the ultimate reference to consult when writing themes to swirc(1).

Text decoration

Example usage:

blabla ^Bbold text^B blabla
blabla ^Vreversed text^V blabla
blabla ^_underlined text^_ blabla

Always use the literal control characters because else it won't work!

Blink is a no operation because it's annoying.

Colors

For the colors 16-99 see the output of the command /colormap. Enough color pairs must've been initialized. (193 color pairs are too few for the colors 16-99 to be used as backgrounds.)

The syntax of the color attribute in text has the format ^CN[,M]. N will be the text (foreground) color and M the background color. A background color (M) is optional and is not always included.

N and M can maximally be two digits long. Although the colors {0,1,2,...,9} are supported you are highly encouraged to use {00,01,02,...,09}.

A plain ^C can be used to turn the color effect off. While typing ^O will make sure ALL the text effects gets reset. For example:

blabla ^C05,02red text on blue background^C blabla
blabla ^C09green text^O blabla

Of course settings can start with colored text and a closing ^C is not essential.

Setting types

See swirc.conf(5).

Settings

term_background (int)

Which background color (0-15) is this theme written for?

0 = white
1 = black

term_enable_colors (bool)

Enable colors (yes/no)?

term_use_default_colors (bool)

Use terminal's default colors? I.e. call use_default_colors(3).

color3, color4 (string)

Colors used in uncategorized contexts. Must begin with ^C.

gfx_failure, gfx_success, gfx_warning (string)

Used in contexts where to flag failures, successes and warnings respectively.

left_bracket, right_bracket (string)

Left and right bracket. Frequently used.

logo_color (string)

Swirc ASCII logo color displayed at startup. (Must begin with ^C.)

nick_s1, nick_s2 (string)

When you or another user types something the nickname will be enclosed by s1 and s2.

nicklist_my_nick_color, nicklist_nick_color, nicklist_privilege_color, nicklist_vline_color (int)

Nicklist decoration. All of these settings are of type int (0-99) thus ^C is not needed and should not be used.

notice_color1, notice_color2 (string)

Notice colors. ^C should be used.

notice_lb, notice_rb, notice_sep (string)

Notice left/right bracket and separator

notice_inner_b1, notice_inner_b2 (string)

Notice inner bracket 1 and 2. (I.e. left and right.)

primary_color, secondary_color (string)

Primary and secondary color for the theme. Frequently used. (Begin with ^C.)

slogan (string)

Swirc slogan displayed in the statusbar.

specifier1, specifier2, specifier3 (string)

Specifiers used in various contexts. Number 1 is frequently used.

statusbar_bg, statusbar_fg (string)

Statusbar background and foreground. Valid values are black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white.

statusbar_leftBracket, statusbar_rightBracket, statusbar_spec (string)

Statusbar left/right bracket and specifier.

time_format (string)

Time format passed to strftime(3).

titlebar_bg, titlebar_fg (string)

Titlebar background and foreground. Valid values are black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white.

whois_acc (string)

whois_away (string)

whois_bot (string)

whois_cert (string)

whois_channels (string)

whois_conn (string)

whois_host (string)

whois_idle (string)

whois_ircName (string)

whois_ircOp (string)

whois_modes (string)

whois_server (string)

whois_service (string)

whois_ssl (string)

Files

~/.swirc/default.thm

default theme

Caveats

If you want to give color to numbers be sure to use two digits for N nor M!