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Terminal themes and skins

Use /theme in the desktop TUI to change terminal appearance:

/theme light
/theme gold
/theme dark telemus
/theme system slate
  • Modes: dark, light, system.
  • Skins: telemus, default (Gold), ares, mono, slate, poseidon, sisyphus, charizard, sienna. You can type gold for default.
  • A mode on its own keeps the current skin. A skin on its own keeps the mode. To change both, give the mode first and the skin second.
  • Tokens are case-insensitive. Spaces or tabs separate them; trailing spaces/tabs are accepted. Other control characters are rejected.

Light and dark modes change the text and backgrounds throughout the terminal. Skins change accent colors. After the dashboard confirms the settings save, the TUI redraws with the new palette, including text that is already visible. The selection is saved through the existing dashboard settings service and restored by settings refresh. /settings shows the saved theme and skin.

System mode and high contrast​

The TUI uses dark colors for system because its terminal adapter cannot reliably detect OS or terminal light/dark preferences. The command reports this fallback. Use /theme light to select a light terminal explicitly.

High contrast takes priority over theme and skin: text becomes white on black, selected rows become black on white, and dim styling is removed. Your theme and skin selection remains saved and returns when high contrast is turned off.

Invalid input or unavailable settings service​

Unknown names, missing arguments, extra arguments and oversized tokens show usage without changing your appearance or sending a settings request. A failed settings save also leaves the active local palette unchanged and shows an error. Incomplete or malformed settings responses also preserve the current palette and high contrast. A refresh that omits high contrast keeps its current value. If the server saved a request but its response was lost, a later settings refresh may pick up that saved selection.

At startup, the TUI uses dark/Telemus until saved settings are available. Invalid saved appearance values keep the last valid palette. Terminal color fidelity depends on your terminal's ANSI true-color support.

Older saved theme names remain readable: slate and nord select dark/Slate, solarized selects dark/Poseidon, monokai selects dark/Sisyphus, and oled selects dark/Gold. An explicitly saved skin takes precedence. Existing settings are not rewritten during loading.

Across product surfaces​

The desktop TUI and Web dashboard use the same saved theme and skin identifiers. The browser keeps its own palette rendering and system-theme detection. Native 3D appearance controls are separate and are unaffected by terminal colors. The native TUI runs on desktop Windows, Linux and macOS; mobile and Web users continue to use their existing native or browser appearance controls.