Colors are not displayed well

[realroot2185]

I made a custom color scheme with black background but it does not work in Alpine Linux.
It works in another distro.

To test this I edited the default with:

color-link default "#F8F8F2,#000000"

color-link comment "#75715E,#000000"

I save it as ~/.config/micro/colorschemes/custom.micro.
And I set in micro setttings.json: "colorscheme": "custom".

I can see the color of comment changing to be the same as default but it is not black.

micro -version
Version: 2.0.14-3
Commit hash: 04c577049ca898f097cd6a2dae69af0b4d4493e1
Compiled on 1739119029

[JoeKar]

I made a custom color scheme with black background but it does not work in Alpine Linux.
It works in another distro.

Doesn't sound like micro's fault.
Anyway, I would bet on MICRO_TRUECOLOR isn't set to 1¹ and thus your terminal (Tilix) applies the configured 16 color palette.
Please assure that Tilix opens the shell as login shell, in case you set MICRO_TRUECOLOR in ~/.profile.

We can close the issue in case I'm right.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/help/colors.md#true-color ↩

[realroot2185]

Correct.
Not sure why in Alpine MICRO_TRUECOLOR isn't set to 1.

[niten94]

I don't at least think this would be a bug with Alpine Linux or Tilix. In the distro where you mentioned it works, the background color may seem to be black or converted to #000000 in the terminal color palette. There may also be a configuration file that is installed where MICRO_TRUECOLOR=1 is set.

micro -version
Version: 2.0.14-3

This is unrelated, but I also plan sometime to look into bugs involving the version in distro packages. There were 2 distributions where it is set to a string interpreted as a prerelease behind 2.0.14 like above, and some where it isn't set.

[realroot2185]

Right, it works in Artix Linux but only in tilix and not in ghostty.
I have a background image in tilix maybe it is because of that.

[realroot2185]

Why truecolor is not true by default?
Wouldn't it better?

[dmaluka]

Why truecolor is not true by default?

For no good reason, I think. It was discussed long ago in #2867.