[Bug]: custom theme does not seem to work

[leonard-slass]

What did you expect to happen?

I have followed the instructions:

find ~/.config/atuin -type f
/home/tile/.config/atuin/config.toml
/home/tile/.config/atuin/themes/my-theme.toml

Relevant excerpt from config.toml:

[theme]
name = "my-theme"
debug = true

cat themes/my-theme.toml
[theme]
name = "my-theme"
parent = "autumn"

[colors]
AlertInto = "green"
Guidance = "#888844"

I was expecting to get the autumn theme with some color modified.

What happened?

I got the default theme. Setting debug to true did not give me further information.

Atuin doctor output

{
  "atuin": {
    "version": "18.4.0",
    "sync": null,
    "sqlite_version": "3.46.0"
  },
  "shell": {
    "name": "fish",
    "default": "fish",
    "plugins": [
      "atuin"
    ],
    "preexec": "built-in"
  },
  "system": {
    "os": "Arch Linux",
    "arch": "x86_64",
    "version": "unknown",
    "disks": [
      {
        "name": "/dev/sda2",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/sda1",
        "filesystem": "vfat"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/sda6",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/crypt",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/sdb1",
        "filesystem": "fuseblk"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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[philtweir]

Thanks @leonard-slass - I'll try and get a look this afternoon but will ping if I have any trouble reproducing!

[philtweir]

Hmm - I have tried this with the following settings:

config.toml:
...
[theme]
name = "my-theme"
debug = true

my-theme.toml:

[theme]
name = "my-theme"
parent = "autumn"

[colors]
AlertError = "#ff857f"

and using atuin 18.4.0 (freshly downloaded from releases) and fish (I thought maybe that was the issue as I would not see a regression there perhaps). I am having some odd line overlap issue in fish, but that does not seem to be related.

It seems to work OK:

Config as above

Config without AlertError line

[theme]
name = "my-theme"
parent = "autumn"

[colors]

Keeping [colors] heading albeit empty to ensure it is parsed correctly.

Without parent

[theme]
name = "my-theme"

[colors]
AlertError = "#ff857f"

Taking the line out of my-theme.toml

Without theme settings

Removing the custom theme from config.toml entirely

---

• 1 shows the custom pink colour on the active command, overriding autumn theme
• 2 shows the autumn theme with normal autumn colours
• 3 shows the default theme with pink overriding
• 4 shows the default theme with default red active command

A couple of thoughts:

• sorry to ask but just to make 100% sure, as this was an issue someone else had, is the theme block correctly located in config.toml and not scoped under another block or anything like that?
• does the autumn theme work if you pick it as a theme in the config.toml theme block?
• if you remove the parent can you do a custom theme on top of the default one?

[leonard-slass]

Hi Phil,

Following your thoughts I have tried:

1. I have modified config.toml with just the theme section. I removed everything else. It does not work.

[theme]
name = "my-theme"

debug = true

2. I have changed the theme to autumn, works great.

3. I have removed the parent and tried to tweak the AlertErrors so that it's pink like you did. That does not work either.

[leonard-slass]

Couple more things I have tried:

1. I used gnome-terminal instead of xterm but nope
2. I ran the install script instead of using Arch's package but still no good :(

I am out of ideas...

[philtweir]

Good thinking to try those - I am on gnome-terminal. Very puzzling!

If you would be willing to try the branch on #2673, that might improve the debugging -- I will look at adding some more, but right now there are only a couple of messages available, stil it should help narrow it down!

[leonard-slass]

Hi,
I have compiled your branch and tried setting ATUIN_LOG to 1 and atuin_client=debug but I am not seeing any log on my terminal. Is it going to a file somewhere?
Have a good day!