# Solarized Dark theme with 1.6.0

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** repl, colors, precompilation\
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941 "2021-03-25T15:55:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![theogf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/theogf/32/1987_2.png) [@theogf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/theogf)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/1 "2021-03-25T15:55:02Z")

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If you noticed like me that some messages are invisible during precompilation with 1.6 when using the Solarized Dark theme in Linux you need to change some of the colors.  
@dave.f.kleinschmidt proposed the following change to the solarized palette:  
Change color8 (formerly #002b36) to #657b83

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**Author:** ![Skoffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skoffer/32/378_2.png) [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/2 "2021-03-25T16:27:44Z")

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Maybe you know how to fix `vim` as well? With this setting, it looks ugly because it seems that `vim`’s solarized color scheme uses `color8` as background.

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**Author:** ![theogf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/theogf/32/1987_2.png) [@theogf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/theogf)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/3 "2021-03-25T17:29:23Z")

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I unfortunately have no idea about Vim…

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**Author:** ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/4 "2021-03-25T17:36:20Z")

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> [@Skoffer](#):
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> With this setting, it looks ugly

Not sure if that helps specifically, but the gruvbox themes are quite nice and look well here with Juia and vim (I moved from solarized to those): [GitHub - morhetz/gruvbox: Retro groove color scheme for Vim](https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox)

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**Author:** ![Skoffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skoffer/32/378_2.png) [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/5 "2021-03-25T17:46:15Z")

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No, is not helping, cause I have a combination of terminal and vim with solarized theme. Because of this I am forced to live on patched version of Julia master, but occasionally I am hoping that there is an easier way.

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**Author:** ![jkleinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jkleinh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jkleinh)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/6 "2021-03-25T19:05:41Z")

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Is there an easy way to fix this on the julia side? I’ve also noticed that some lines from stacktraces are also invisible which is even more of a problem.

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**Author:** ![Skoffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skoffer/32/378_2.png) [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/7 "2021-03-25T19:39:21Z")

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According to [Fix of [#38730], solarized colorscheme bug fix by Arkoniak · Pull Request #38792 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/38792) It looks like the consensus is to provide a general colorscheme mechanism, which is a much bigger task with unknown timeline.

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**Author:** ![jkleinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jkleinh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jkleinh)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/8 "2021-03-25T20:07:56Z")

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I fixed this in vim by switching to [https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8](https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8) which I guess uses true-color instead of the fixed set of ANSI terminal colors.

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**Author:** ![Skoffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skoffer/32/378_2.png) [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solarized-dark-theme-with-1-6-0/57941/9 "2021-03-25T20:59:42Z")

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Ah, thanks for the advice, maybe it’ll help somebody in the future. Not my case though, I use 256 color terminal.