xrdb-scheme(3)

NAME

xrdb-scheme - Load a XRDB scheme file from the user's config folder

SYNOPSIS

xrdb-scheme "[scheme-name...]"

DESCRIPTION

xrdb-scheme "[scheme-name...]" loads from the themes folder within the users config directory the given xrdb scheme file. The scheme name should be given without extension. If no argument is given, the user can interactively select the scheme from the command line.

NOTES

The command allows to use different editor editor themes without creating individual scheme macro files. A web resource which currently has more than 400 color schemes and their xrdb files that are usable with MicroEmacs is:

https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes

The user has to download the raw xrdb files from that side and place them into a themes folder within the users MicroEmacs config folder. Below is a little example command line for Unix systems to download 3 color schemes:

mkdir ~/.config/jasspa/meuser/themes 
wget -O ~/.config/jasspa/meuser/themes/mathias.xrdb \ 
  https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/raw/master/xrdb/Mathias.xrdb 
wget -O ~/.config/jasspa/meuser/themes/material-light.xrdb \ 
  https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/raw/master/xrdb/Material.xrdb 
wget -O ~/.config/jasspa/meuser/themes/material-dark.xrdb \ 
  https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/raw/master/xrdb/Material%20Dark.xrdb 

After you executed these commands you should be able to use the downloaded themes after executing: Esc x and xrdb-scheme and then pressing two times the TAB key. Feel free to browse that README on the iTerm2-Color-Schemes project page and then replace the wget code with the theme names.

Please note that to change the appearance of these schemes you can't use the scheme-editor(3) command, but you have to change the color values directly within the xrdb file.

SEE ALSO

scheme-editor(3), user-setup(3).

Ref: xrdb-scheme(3) File: m3mac105.3 Date: 2025/09/26

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