Is there any Guides/Documentation on creating an irssi theme?
reddit / irc

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cinnix · 2011-11-24 10:33

The only thing that I've found useful so far is [irssi colour
formats.](http://irssi.org/documentation/formats)

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coachesballsack · 2011-11-24 12:16

Make as copy of and read the default theme

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curson · 2011-11-24 14:01

Quite frankly, no.

I have created [mine](http://irssi.org/themefiles/aka.theme)
\([screenshot](http://irssi.org/themefiles/aka.png)\) back in the days
without much more than what you're linking at. My best advice is to
try and find, among those already published, a theme that most closely
resemble something you like and use that as a template to modify upon.
My inspiration was [lilah](http://irssi.org/themefiles/lilah.theme),
for example. You start off from a theme, and little by little you
understand how everything works (look for a commented .theme file) and
what you want to modify.

I still very happily ~~ab~~use irssi every day, but it makes me kind
of sad seeing that pretty much nothing is moving towards 0.8.16...
anyway, hope I helped you a bit ;)

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[deleted] · 2011-11-24 18:39

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curson · 2011-11-24 19:03

Thanks ;) The version I'm running now is slightly modified, but just a
touch here and there, nothing major. I'm not bored yet :p

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shobble · 2011-12-02 12:31

Might be some useful stuff on my scripting wiki:
[https://github.com/shabble/irssi-
docs/wiki](https://github.com/shabble/irssi-docs/wiki), although it
still needs a whole bunch of work, especially on theme-related stuff.

* [Howto (WIP)](https://github.com/shabble/irssi-
docs/wiki/theme_howto)
* [Formats & Colours Syntax](https://github.com/shabble/irssi-
docs/wiki/Formats)
* [All abstracts/formats](https://github.com/shabble/irssi-
docs/wiki/complete_themes)
* [UI Overview](https://github.com/shabble/irssi-docs/wiki/UIOverview)

Quite a bit of the material is from the official docs or the
default.theme comments, but there might be some useful new stuff
there.

Contributions welcome!

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coachesballsack · 2012-01-04 09:51

Thanks. I used this for a while a few years ago. :)

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curson · 2012-01-04 09:55

Oohhh, nice to know :)))