The prompt text is set to the same value as the prompt background and changes with it, so the text is never visible unless highlighted. In iTerm2, going to the current profile's color settings and changing the ANSI color values for normal black changes the background and text color of the prompt and changing the value for bright black changes the color of the indicator on the line where I enter commands. This behavior is experienced in both Terminal and iTerm2. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, etc) Report Terminal Type (an iTerm2 preference): xterm-256color
zshrc.Īlien's prompt is colored as it should be. Though Alien is working fine on Ubuntu, both the prompt background and text are colored black though I have set ALIEN_THEME=blue in.