Lazygit: Invisible highlighting in kitty and alacritty terminal

[benruijl]

In the kitty terminal it is impossible to see the highlighting, regardless of colour scheme.

Steps to reproduce:

• Try lazygit in the kitty terminal

• OS: Arch Linux
• Lazygit Version 0.20.2
  
  
  
  • Kitty version 0.17.3
  
  

[lukewang1024]

Same issue here. The selected item is not highlighted.

• lazygit 0.20.2
• Alacritty 0.4.2
• macOS

[chmln]

It's not exactly invisible, just hard to notice. The focus on screenshot below is on Cargo.lock:

It would be great if the background was highlighted instead.

[benruijl]

That is actually visible for me. This is what I am seeing:

[a-elhag]

Had the same problem, but looking through the docs I found a solution. Make a config file and put the settings in it:

Default Path

Default path for the config file:

Linux: ~/.config/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
Windows: %APPDATA%\jesseduffield\lazygit\config.yml

And put these settings in it

  gui:
    theme:
      lightTheme: true
      activeBorderColor:
        - black
        - bold
      inactiveBorderColor:
        - black
      selectedLineBgColor:
        - default

How the highlighting now looks

[jesseduffield]

Thanks for pointing that out @a-elhag . I'm not aware of any way around this issue in alacritty. Does anybody have suggestions on how we could get around it, or failing that, how to make the config-based solution easier to find?

[mordax777]

Had the same problem, but looking through the docs I found a solution. Make a config file and put the settings in it:

Default Path

Default path for the config file:

Linux: ~/.config/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
Windows: %APPDATA%\jesseduffield\lazygit\config.yml

And put these settings in it

  gui:
    theme:
      lightTheme: true
      activeBorderColor:
        - black
        - bold
      inactiveBorderColor:
        - black
      selectedLineBgColor:
        - default

How the highlighting now looks

If I add the configuration it looks like this afterwards:

[jesseduffield]

@mordax777 can you see how you go with:

      inactiveBorderColor:
        - white

[mordax777]

@jesseduffield sorry for the late reply. Here the result.

[bahelms]

@mordax777 I played around with the settings and got something that worked for me. I'm using Kitty. The docs helped.

gui:
  theme:
    lightTheme: false
    activeBorderColor:
      - white
      - bold
    inactiveBorderColor:
      - white
    selectedLineBgColor:
      - reverse
      - blue

[mordax777]

@bahelms Thanks, that fixed the problem!

[Axel-Jacobsen]

For people in the future, I will add that I had the same issue as @benruijl, and it was solved by going into my terminal settings and allowing bold fonts.

[lqiang79]

There is the same issue in windows Terminal.