TITLE: CMUS colour scheme and persistent settings
DATE: 2022-12-08
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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cmus uses a file called autosave (~/.config/cmus/autosave) to store
configuration settings. This file is loaded every time cmus is
launched. Settings changed during a session will be written to
autosave on exit. This can make changing settings a bit finicky. A
few times I've accidentally changed a setting by pressing the wrong
hotkey, and then not been able to change it back. There is another
file called rc (~/.config/cmus/rc) which can store persistent
settings. These settings are loaded after autosave and will not be
overwritten on exit.
[cmus]:
https://cmus.github.io/
In my cmus rc I only have a few settings:
- set aaa_mode=all - play all tracks, alternatively artist or
album for all songs in the current artist or album.
- set stop_after_queue=true - after the play queue has finished,
stop playing
- set continue=true - Play the next song automatically
- bind -f common q quit - rebind q to not ask for confirmation on
exit
- unbind -f common C - unbind C, which normally toggles playing
the next song automatically. I never want to disable continuous
mode.
All settings can be found in the cmus manual.
[cmus manual]:
https://github.com/cmus/cmus/blob/master/Doc/cmus.txt
The rest is colour settings:
- set color_separator=white - separator colour between artist and
track view in tree view
- set color_statusline_bg=gray - statusline background
- set color_statusline_fg=black - statusline foreground
- set color_win_title_bg=gray - background of window title
- set color_win_title_fg=black - foreground of window title
- set color_titleline_bg=default - background of currently
playing track
- set color_titleline_fg=white - foreground of currently playing
track
- set color_win_sel_bg=gray - background of selected row when not
currently playing
- set color_win_sel_fg=black - foreground of selected row when
not currently playing
- set color_win_inactive_sel_bg=darkgray - background of selected
row when not in that window and not currently playing
- set color_win_inactive_sel_fg=black - foreground of selected
row when not in that window and not currently playing
- set color_win_cur_sel_bg=gray - background of currently playing
track when selected
- set color_win_cur_sel_fg=black - foreground of currently
playing track when selected
- set color_win_inactive_cur_sel_bg=darkgray - background of
currently playing track when row selected but not in that window
- set color_win_inactive_cur_sel_fg=black - foreground of
currently playing track when row selected but not in that window
- set color_win_cur=green - text colour of currently playing
track when not selected
