lsd

Directory listing colors for lsd.

Install

lsd reads exactly one custom color file and it has to be called colors.yaml, so pick a variant and copy it under that name:

mkdir -p ~/.config/lsd
cp extras/lsd/silkcircuit-neon.yaml ~/.config/lsd/colors.yaml

Then turn it on in ~/.config/lsd/config.yaml:

color:
  theme: custom

lsd searches $HOME/.config/lsd before $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and a color file it cannot parse is discarded without a word, so if the output still looks stock, check that path first.

The installer writes the file and creates config.yaml when there is not one already: ./install.sh --variant neon.

What the theme covers

Permissions, ownership, sizes, dates, inodes, link validity, the tree edges, and the git status column. File and extension colors are not part of it: lsd takes those from LS_COLORS, and any file: or extension: key in colors.yaml is rejected as an unknown field.

Colors are written as [r, g, b] triples, which lsd accepts alongside palette indices. That keeps the file on the same hex values as the Neovim theme rather than on the nearest of 256 approximations.

Files

Variant	File
neon	extras/lsd/silkcircuit-neon.yaml
vibrant	extras/lsd/silkcircuit-vibrant.yaml
soft	extras/lsd/silkcircuit-soft.yaml
glow	extras/lsd/silkcircuit-glow.yaml
dawn	extras/lsd/silkcircuit-dawn.yaml