Terminal: ColorTool does not work on Linux distros

[wigster]

Not sure this is what I should be doing, but the bash window for WSL does not get modified using this tool, so I default to an ugly color selection.

[zadjii-msft]

This is a known limitation unfortunately. @benhillis can comment more on the interop portion of it. Unfortunately there's not a great solution for this use case yet :/

[thisguychris]

this is the first thing I tried when I used this tool.

One workaround is open command prompt which has the colors you have and just type bash, and there you go, you get the colors you set.

[Falcury]

The changes in #50 are allowing me to set the colors from within bash. Although the color scheme is not saved permanently, you could add this to ~/.bashrc, so that the colors will be silently set at launch:

pushd /path/to/ColorTool &> /dev/null
./colortool.exe -q -x <schemename>
popd &> /dev/null

Right-clicking the title bar, and clicking OK in the Properties dialog also seems to make the color scheme permanent. (Although you might have to do that separately for the case where you launch via the start menu, and the case where you launch bash.exe from an explorer window address bar.)

[rofrol]

@Falcury -q -x works for me, though showing schemes does not:

[rofrol@DESKTOP-NBALJ88 ~]$ pushd ~/rofrol/installed/colortool/ &> /dev/null
[rofrol@DESKTOP-NBALJ88 ~/rofrol/installed/colortool]$ ./colortool.exe -s

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.

   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.Console.GetBufferInfo(Boolean throwOnNoConsole, Boolean& succeeded)
   at System.Console.get_WindowWidth()
   at ColorTool.Program.PrintSchemes()
   at ColorTool.Program.Main(String[] args)

[zadjii-msft]

I'm going to close this issue, because as @Falcury mentioned, #50 fixed this.

Fixing -s on WSL will take another PR - I filed #312 to track that.

[buncis]

for people who stumble to this issue when trying to applying colorbox in WSL

my steps is here

• download colortool.zip
• extract it somewhere
• open the exctracted folder inside WSL bash
• run the command with -x options
• mine is /mnt/e/ColorTool$ ./ColorTool.exe -x solarized_dark
• your wsl bash should change color according to your colorscheme

to make it permanent

• right click your wsl bash window title bar
• click properties
• then in properties window just click ok
• it should make it permanent

thanks to @zadjii-msft and @Falcury

[rofrol]

@buncismamen Your solution does not worked for me. This worked when providing full path to itermcolors file:

/mnt/c/Users/roman/installed/ColorTool$ ./ColorTool.exe -x schemes/solarized_light.itermcolors