Mon 22 Aug 16:02:44 UTC 2022

Arduino IDE themes

progress: solid themes with three comment color styles

upstream:

https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/tree/master/build/shared/lib/theme

includes dracula theme - see distrib

The themes are .zip files placed in the sketchbook, under a new directory you create (named 'theme').

In Debian Linux, that means by default, a theme named 'red_rover.zip' will be found at the pathname (directory plus filename) of:

/home/yourlogin/Arduino/theme/red_rover.zip

When unzipped, the files wind up in the very same directory the command was given in. For the sample file, named yellow_comments.zip:

mkdir /home/yourlogin/test_themes.d cd /home/yourlogin/test_themes.d cp -p ~/Downloads/yellow_comments.zip . unzip yellow_comments.zip

ls theme.txt # verify it was just copied to the current directory ls ./syntax/default.xml # again, verify

This is just meant to show that it's the current directory that gets the files when you unzip a theme .zip file.

Traditionally, when you unzip a file, a new directory is created, and all files are unpacked to the newly-created directory.

Themes are not organized quite that way.

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