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Color scheme not applied in iTerm2

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Mar 15, 2026107377 views
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I haven't been able to apply any color scheme to iTerm2. It looks like that the Basic Colors are applied, but the ANSI Colors are not (as shown in Preferences>Profiles>Colors). Using Mac OSX 10.7.2. Any help?

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Fix for: Color scheme not applied in iTerm2

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I've been having the same issue and this is what seems to have solved it: In your .bash_profile set CLICOLOR before setting TERM: save bash file and source: Then, in your iTerm2 Preferences > Profiles > Terminal > Report Terminal Type, set to either xterm-256color or xterm Close iTerm2, restart it and type ls. That did the trick for me. Good luck. Catalina and ZSH If using ZSH, which is the default shell in Catalina and later, use , instead of .

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