One-stop font color (theme) tweak-through-app-layers feasibility at config.json #18676

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opened 2026-01-31 06:21:01 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @kazuf3 on GitHub (Oct 13, 2022).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

TL; DR
Make color theme tweaks one-stop at config.json.

Currently there are many choices where user make the font color selection in Terminal.
For example, an user may pick font color in their CUI text editor, shell config, Tmux config or Terminal config.
Let's say a user picks solarized dark theme in one's config.json, but his different layers of apps overwrite them respectively, so one won't see solarized dark theme in his editor.

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Pass current color theme variables from config.json into corresponding environment variables to WSL2.

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Reference: starred/terminal#18676