profanity-color(1)

profanity-color1

Usage

/color on|off|redgreen|blue

/color own on|off

Overview

Settings for consistent color generation for nicks (XEP-0392). Including corrections for Color Vision Deficiencies. Your terminal needs to support 256 colors.

Arguments

on|off|redgreen|blue

Enable or disable nick colorization for MUC nicks. 'redgreen' is for people with red/green blindness and 'blue' for people with blue blindness.

own on|off

Enable color generation for own nick. If disabled the color from the color from the theme ('me') will get used.

Examples

/color off

/color on

/color blue

/color own off

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.