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+# Solarized color theme for the linux TTY
+
+A tty solarized theme using Ethan Schoonover’s [Solarized color theme](http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized).  
+
+If you are looking for colors on your xterm, konsole, terminator, urxvt, guake, aterm and friends, please search a bit more.  This script is for setting the colors on a linux TTY, the real terminal that you get if you are not running ``X`` or ``wayland``.  
+
+## Repositories
+  * This theme as a single repository: [tty-solarized](https://github.com/joepvd/tty-solarized)
+  * The main solarized repository: [solarized](https://github.com/altercation/solarized)
+
+## Installation
+Source either ``tty-solarized-dark.sh`` or ``tty-solarized-light.sh`` in the startup file of your shell.  As this is only run on TTYs where usually a login shell is started, the login file of your shell (``${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zlogin`` for zsh or ``~/.profile`` for bash).  Now the 'normal' names for colors are available to your applications.  
+
+Included is also the awk-script used to generate those two files. Would the color scheme be changed upstream, anyone with gawk installed can update these files.  
+
diff --git a/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/pty2tty.awk b/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/pty2tty.awk
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+#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
+# pty2tty.awk: Create solarized color scheme for TTY. 
+# Usage: ./pty2tty.awk [-v t=light|dark] $Xresources
+# With $Xresources from http://github.com/altercation.
+# Put resulting code in your shell's startup/login file. 
+# By Joep van Delft, 2013
+
+BEGIN {
+    if (t~/^[lL]+/) theme="light"
+    else theme="dark"
+}
+
+/! (Common|Dark|Light) *$/ {
+    flag=tolower($2)
+    next
+}
+
+/^(! |)#define/ { 
+    if (flag=="common" || flag==theme) {
+        solar[$(NF-1)]["var"] = gensub(/[^[:xdigit:]]/,"","g",$NF)
+    }
+    next
+}
+
+/^\*color/ {
+    solar[$2]["code"] = gensub(/[^[:digit:]]+/,"","g",$1)
+    next
+}
+
+END{
+    print "# Solarized theme for tty, the", theme, "version."
+    print "# Based on:"
+    print "#   - Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized)"
+    print "#   - Xresources from http://github.com/altercation/solarized"
+    print "# Generated with pty2tty.awk by Joep van Delft"
+    print "# http://github.com/joepvd/tty-solarized"
+    print "if [ \"$TERM\" = \"linux\" ]; then"
+    for (desc in solar) 
+        printf "    echo -en \"\\e]P%X%s\" # %s\n", \
+            solar[desc]["code"], \
+            solar[desc]["var"], \
+            desc
+    print "    clear # against bg artifacts\nfi"
+}
diff --git a/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/tty-solarized-dark.sh b/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/tty-solarized-dark.sh
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+# Solarized theme for tty, the dark version.
+# Based on:
+#   - Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized)
+#   - Xresources from http://github.com/altercation/solarized
+# Generated with pty2tty.awk by Joep van Delft
+# http://github.com/joepvd/tty-solarized
+if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
+    echo -en "\e]PB657b83" # S_base00
+    echo -en "\e]PA586e75" # S_base01
+    echo -en "\e]P0073642" # S_base02
+    echo -en "\e]P62aa198" # S_cyan
+    echo -en "\e]P8002b36" # S_base03
+    echo -en "\e]P2859900" # S_green
+    echo -en "\e]P5d33682" # S_magenta
+    echo -en "\e]P1dc322f" # S_red
+    echo -en "\e]PC839496" # S_base0
+    echo -en "\e]PE93a1a1" # S_base1
+    echo -en "\e]P9cb4b16" # S_orange
+    echo -en "\e]P7eee8d5" # S_base2
+    echo -en "\e]P4268bd2" # S_blue
+    echo -en "\e]P3b58900" # S_yellow
+    echo -en "\e]PFfdf6e3" # S_base3
+    echo -en "\e]PD6c71c4" # S_violet
+    clear # against bg artifacts
+fi
diff --git a/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/tty-solarized-light.sh b/zsh/.zsh/tty-solarized/tty-solarized-light.sh
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+# Solarized theme for tty, the light version.
+# Based on:
+#   - Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized)
+#   - Xresources from http://github.com/altercation/solarized
+# Generated with pty2tty.awk by Joep van Delft
+# http://github.com/joepvd/tty-solarized
+if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
+    echo -en "\e]PB839496" # S_base00
+    echo -en "\e]PA93a1a1" # S_base01
+    echo -en "\e]P0eee8d5" # S_base02
+    echo -en "\e]P62aa198" # S_cyan
+    echo -en "\e]P8fdf6e3" # S_base03
+    echo -en "\e]P2859900" # S_green
+    echo -en "\e]P5d33682" # S_magenta
+    echo -en "\e]P1dc322f" # S_red
+    echo -en "\e]PC657b83" # S_base0
+    echo -en "\e]PE586e75" # S_base1
+    echo -en "\e]P9cb4b16" # S_orange
+    echo -en "\e]P7073642" # S_base2
+    echo -en "\e]P4268bd2" # S_blue
+    echo -en "\e]P3b58900" # S_yellow
+    echo -en "\e]PF002b36" # S_base3
+    echo -en "\e]PD6c71c4" # S_violet
+    clear # against bg artifacts
+fi