Dainty for WSLtty/Mintty

Dainty is a color theme generator with support for Visual Studio Code. Dainty Light and Dainty Dark are the default presets. They’re balanced and refined color themes, using carefully selected colors within the Lab color space.

See https://dainty.site/wsltty for more information.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/alexanderte/dainty-wsltty.git
cd dainty-wsltty
yarn

Build

yarn build

The build script builds dainty to dist directory.

Build and install

The build script, when run with -i or --install, builds and installs dainty to the WSLtty/Mintty themes directory.

WSLtty

yarn build -i

Mintty

yarn build -i -t mintty

To install the theme using yarn build, you need to run Git Bash as administrator. Mintty needs to be installed through Git for Windows using the default installation path.

Configuration

See https://dainty.site/configuration for more information.

Extras

Avoiding blue-on-green directories

Directories with permissions 777 are rendered as blue on green. In WSL, the current default mount and process umask setting causes this to be applied to most directories. To instead mount directories with permissions 755, and enable using chmod within the Windows mount, add /etc/wsl.conf with the following content:

[automount]
enabled = true
options = "metadata,umask=0022,fmask=0011"
mountFsTab = false

There currently is an issue preventing the default /etc/profile umask from being applied. This means that newly created files and directories are created with permissions 666 and 777, respectively. A workaround is adding the following to .bashrc:

umask 022

Even after these changes you might have files with the executable flag set. I would suggest to only remove the flag for files that you know. The flag can be removed recursively in a directory by running:

chmod -R -x+X name-of-directory

It might not be needed, but the following can be added to .bashrc to prevent directories with permissions 777 render as blue on green:

export LS_COLORS='ow=01;34'

Shortening PS1 prompt

Paths in WSL might become verbose when working with code mounted on the Windows file system. By adding the following to .bashrc and replacing the first two variables, the Windows paths will render as ≈/. Linux paths will render as ~/.

function ps1_pwd {
    windows_home="/mnt/c/Users/Alexander Teinum"
    wsl_home="/home/alexanderte"
    pwd=`pwd`

    if [[ $pwd == $windows_home* ]]; then
        echo ≈${pwd:${#windows_home}}
    elif [[ $pwd == $wsl_home* ]]; then
        echo ~${pwd:${#wsl_home}}
    elif [[ $pwd != "/" ]]; then
        echo $pwd
    fi
}

export PS1='`ps1_pwd`/ '

Changing window title

The WSLtty window title can be set to “WSLtty” by adding the following to .bashrc:

echo -ne "\e]0;WSLtty\a"

Changing icon

Under extras in the repository there is an .ico file with the terminal Feather icon stroked with the Dainty blue 24 color. This can be set by setting the icon for the WSLtty shortcut.

License

Dainty is licensed under the MIT License.