CLI themes, plain mode and accessibility

Your theme, in your terminal

By default kodeo draws with your KODEO theme (Settings → Appearance) — your dark theme on a dark terminal, your light theme on a light one. To pin one of the 20:

kodeo config theme              # pick from a list, with swatches
kodeo config theme aurora
kodeo config theme auto         # back to your KODEO theme

Ordinary commands never paint a background — only text colours, matched to your terminal. The dashboard (kodeo ui) paints the whole theme.

If kodeo can't tell whether your terminal is dark or light: kodeo config background light (or dark).

Colours adapt to what your terminal supports — truecolor, 256 colours or 16 — and every colour also comes with a word or a symbol (✓, ✗, ▲, ●), so nothing depends on colour alone.

Plain mode, for screen readers

kodeo status --plain
kodeo config plain on        # always
KODEO_PLAIN=1                # in your environment

Plain mode is linear text: no boxes, no cursor movement, no animation, full words. Questions are asked one line at a time. The dashboard isn't drawn in plain mode — use kodeo who, kodeo chat, kodeo inbox and kodeo git status.

Colour, motion and symbols

• NO_COLOR=1 or --no-color — no colours.
• kodeo config motion reduced (or KODEO_REDUCED_MOTION=1) — no spinners or transitions.
• --ascii (or kodeo config icons ascii) — plain ASCII symbols for old consoles.
• kodeo config icons nerd — Nerd Font icons, if your terminal font has them.

kodeo doctor shows what kodeo detected about your terminal.

Everything else in kodeo config

kodeo config                 # every setting
kodeo config popups all      # pop-ups in watch and the dashboard: important, all or off
kodeo config desktop on      # desktop notifications (off by default)
kodeo config telemetry on    # anonymous speed numbers (off by default)
kodeo config editor cursor   # what kodeo code opens
kodeo config --reset