to my shame i did not know how to customize the nmtui default colors (for the sake of my own health and mental stability). after reading a bit, i found out it uses the so-called newt backend with the whiptail app.
long story short… turns out it reads some of the env variables for that backend to setup the colors (if you’re interested, here’s where this happens in the code).
so you can simply set these env variables before calling nmtui. here’s a combination i came up with:
NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui
enjoy and keep your eyes healthy!
for comparison, here’s the default
Another option is to change your terminal color profile. Here’s what the default looks like on Kitty’s Misterioso theme:
imo more tolerable than the default colors, and it applies to other terminal apps too.
To preview themes:
kitty +kitten themes
Please don’t use “rape” as a casual negative verb, there are better, more accurate words to use that don’t needlessly reference SA.
i really apologize if the use of that word was perceived as offensive, that was obviously not my intent. i’m usually quite straightforward in picking words (i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon).
PS. for the context of others reading this comment, the original title of this post was: “nmtui that does not rape your eyes.”
Thank you, OP.
Thanks!
(i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon)
What culture is that? I wasn’t aware such a thing existed.
Probably a Scandinavian country if I had to guess.
(i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon).
It is more likely that you are just not aware of it.
This is great, bookmarking for later. My polybar config opens nmtui in a floating kitty terminal when you click the networking icons. It’d be awesome to theme it accordingly.
same here (except it’s waybar in my case) ( :
Thanks. I’ll use it my config. you’re an eye saver.
I’m not sure where this software comes from, but you should try to get a merge to fix this to default. I’d give it a thumbs up after some testing for sure.
Wow thanks, I’m definitely going to alias that :)
Thank you! I was just suffering from this an hour ago…
Luckily I don’t have to use nmtui all that much but this look nice, I might try it
It’s very useful for people who don’t use a desktop environment, such as TWM (tiling window manager) users. I use nmtui all the time.
Agreed. But for such a simple tool I find it so ugly and unintuitive that I ended up rolling my own 3-line script using
nmcliandfzfthat does exactly the same thing more logically and in less keystrokes.I would be interested in seeing the script. I really need to learn fzf now.
Sure.
wn=$(nmcli dev wifi list | fzf) ssid="$(echo $wn | awk '{print $2}')" read -e -p "Password: " pw nmcli dev wifi connect "$ssid" password $pwMe too!
That’s the kind of innovation I expect from the Linux community
