Having recently I upgraded my Mac to OS X Lion the first thing I noticed was my terminal’s color theme was no longer working properly! Prior to upgrading I was using a combination of Visor (now replaced by TotalTerminal), SIMBL, and TerminalColors along with the IR_Black theme posted by Todd Werth as detailed in his blog entry A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable. As the method to solve my problem took a bit of searching and trial and error I am posting the process I went through in hopes of helping others whom may stumble upon this post.
Steps taken:
1) Since I previously had Visor installed, I made the switch to TotalTerminal by uninstalling SIMBL (this also removes any plugins such as TerminalColors). Easiest way to accomplish this is to head over to the SIMBL site, download the lastest release, and run the uninstaller it comes with.
2) Install TotalTerminal.
3) A modified version of the IR_Black.terminal theme file has been provided below. I have also posted a copy to Gist on Github here. Create a new file ending with the.terminal extension containing the modified code.
4) Open your terminal and head over to Terminal -> Preferences -> Text tab. TotalTerminal uses the Visor theme when it loads up. Remove the existing Visor theme, import the newly created file from step 3, and rename it to Visor.
5) Quit and restart TotalTerminal and your new color theme should load.
Modified IR_Black.terminal theme file:
| XML | | copy code | | ? |
| 001 | |
| 002 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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| 169 | <key>ProfileCurrentVersion</key> |
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| 199 | <key>name</key> |
| 200 | <string>Pro irBlack</string> |
| 201 | <key>shellExitAction</key> |
| 202 | <integer>1</integer> |
| 203 | <key>type</key> |
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| 206 | </plist> |
| 207 |
I use 
Thanks for the theme! Cheers.