Can I change the selection background color in the diff pane ?

[nicos68]

The line selection background color of the diff pane blends poorly with my terminal themes, be it the dark :

or the light :

For example gui.theme.selectedLineBgColor helped me a lot to improve the colors when I set it to black:


Is there any similar option to improve that ?

[stefanhaller]

In the last release you can set gui.theme.selectedRangeBgColor for that. On master this has been removed though, selectedLineBgColor also applies to the diff pane there.

[nicos68]

Thanks, I used selectedRangeBgColor and now it looks perfect. I think my problems come from the fact that I run Fedora, and I don't have any reliable way to install and keep lazygit up to date. The copr is stuck at version 0.38.

So I had to delete and reinstall it using go. What's weird now is that if I use selectedRangeBgColor it works even though it's not listed in the schema.json, as my editor notices :

But if I remove this property and only use selectedLineBgColor, it has no impact in the diff pane.

[stefanhaller]

How did you install it? If you usego install github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit@latest, you'll get the last tag, which is the same as the latest release. You'll have to say @master if you want master.

The schema that your editor uses is always the one from master though, as it has no way of knowing what version you are using. It's confusing, but we can't do much about that.

[nicos68]

Oh okay I never worked with go so I thought it would download the latest version from the default branch on github. It makes more sense now thanks.