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iTerm2 Bash/Prompt colors faded/different from terminal?


I'm so confused and I've been pulling my hair out for hours now. I've been trying to get my bash text to have the same color as I do on my desktop, it works fine in the default terminal app on mac, although on iTerm2 (which is what I used), the colors are faded and gross.

I've checked my $TERM variable and it's set to 'xterm-256color' as well as my report terminal type in preferences on iterm.

Here is a comparison for reference, the top is iterm and the bottom is terminal (both using the same PS1=blahblah) If anyone has ANY ideas please, please, help me. I'm going to go bald trying to fix this. I'm so frustrated.

bash terminal colors prompt iterm
edited Aug 30 '17 at 21:49 asked Aug 30 '17 at 21:23 Gerold Newcombe



This isn't related to the shell or any environment variables, it's Terminal's and iTerm's profile settings.

Open up iTerm's preferences via the menu bar or with Command-,, then: answered Aug 31 '17 at 1:55 
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