This is the dark palette I use.  Sharing it because people might want to see all the element names:

root=white,black
border=black,lightgray
window=lightgray,lightgray
shadow=black,gray
title=black,lightgray
button=black,cyan
actbutton=white,cyan
compactbutton=black,lightgray
checkbox=black,lightgray
actcheckbox=lightgray,cyan
entry=black,lightgray
disentry=gray,lightgray
label=black,lightgray
listbox=black,lightgray
actlistbox=black,cyan
sellistbox=lightgray,black
actsellistbox=lightgray,black
textbox=black,lightgray
acttextbox=black,cyan
emptyscale=,gray
fullscale=,cyan
helpline=white,black
roottext=lightgrey,black


Cool, this works!

![](https://m.stacker.news/87918)

I have to tweak it a little to make it look better but this already helped me a lot. I will pay you the bounty.

However, I see you don't have a horse which means you don't have a wallet attached. Do you want to attach a wallet first so you can receive sats?

You can inject your own color config using:
```bash
sudoedit /etc/newt/palette
```
Or better:
```bash
mkdir -p ~/.config/nmtui
cp /etc/newt/palette ~/.config/nmtui/palette
```
Then edit your alias:
```bash
alias nmtui='NEWT_COLORS=$(<~/.config/nmtui/palette) nmtui'
```
You can tweak the palette like:
```
root=white,black
border=black,brightblue
window=gray,black
title=brightwhite,black
button=black,gray
button_active=brightwhite,blue
checkbox=green,black
```
Catppuccin Mocha-inspired tweaks:
```
root=lavender,crust
border=sapphire,base
window=overlay0,base
title=rosewater,crust
button=surface2,lavender
button_active=crust,maroon
```
To apply:
```bash
export NEWT_COLORS=$(<~/.config/nmtui/palette)
nmtui
```

BONUS One-liner:
```bash
alias nmtui='NEWT_COLORS="root=lavender,crust border=sapphire,base window=overlay0,base title=rosewater,crust button=surface2,lavender button_active=crust,maroon" nmtui'
```
Replace the color names with Xterm-256-compatible ones or hex via terminal emulators that support truecolor.

geeknik

deSign_r

> NEWT_COLORS='window=blue' nmtui

This doesn't seem to do anything

> NEWT_COLORS='window=white,red border=white,red checkbox=white,red actcheckbox=white,green' nmtui

This at least changed something:

![](https://m.stacker.news/87911)

btw, did you use AI for this reply?

5000 sats for who tells me how to fix this in a way that ONLY affects 

devs

I really like [`nmtui`](https://man.archlinux.org/man/nmtui.1) but damn, the color scheme SUCKS:

![](https://m.stacker.news/87883)

5000 sats for who tells me how to fix this in a way that ONLY affects `nmtui`.

```
$ echo $XTERM
tmux-256color
```

_bonus sats if you're using the [catppuccin mocha colors](https://catppuccin.com/palette/)_