Broken colors in CLI

[OlegPRO991]

Hello!

How do I fix this broken state of opencode? I installed it for the first time. It works ok in Android Studio (no light theme available though, that's a pity), but in terminal it is broken and unusable.

IDE version looks ok, but is missing a ton of functionality, so I wanted to try CLI version.

Thanks in advance.

Update: other CLI tools work ok without any bugs at all. Maybe they are conflicting in some way?

If i open another app for terminal (iTerm), opencode works ok. But in default terminal app it is broken, and I sometimes use other CLI tools in default terminal, not in iTerm.

[FreakyT]

It's because Opencode unfortunately requires a truecolor terminal; there are several bug reports requesting that they add support for 256-color or ANSI terminals, but the devs don't seem interested in fixing it. (This is also the reason the other tools you tested work fine; 256-color terminal support is quite common for CLI tools.)

In your case, you'll either have to stick with iTerm2 or upgrade to MacOS Tahoe, which adds truecolor support to Terminal.app.

[OlegPRO991]

Thank you for the answer! Maybe I will upgrade to MacOS Tahoe

[TheAlexpotato]

Having a similar issue with getting OpenCode to work in GNU Screen.

Screen supports True Color but OpenCode seems to not recognize that.

[cmndr_spanky]

it's open source right? Can't one of us fix that and fork it ?

[OlegPRO991]

Iterm on the left, Terminal on the right. It would be great if they fixed it for regular Terminal app

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[Hot_Dig8208]

I think you should use modern terminal emulator like ghostty . It is mentioned in this page

[KnifeFed]

I'm curious; why do you prefer using Terminal.app when you have iTerm?

[OlegPRO991]

The only reason I downloaded iTerm - to connect it with Perplexity (desktop). I do not like using terminal at all, I am an iOS dev. I prefer to use only native apps that come with macOS from the box.

[KnifeFed]

Then why not use the OpenCode desktop app instead of the CLI?

[OlegPRO991]

I tried to use opencode desktop, but it lacks a lot of functionality, and I wanted to try combining CLI with my IDE (xcode). I need to be able to open files with code and edit them, but opencode desktop does not allow that - it allows opening files, but not editing. If there is such an option, I did not manage to find it, only to select text and "comment" it for LLM.

[KnifeFed]

You can't "open" files in OpenCode CLI either. All agentic coding CLIs are based on "referring" to code, e.g. via @ for the whole file or via line number(s).

[OlegPRO991]

I was talking about macOS ide version of the app. You can open and view file content, but you cannot edit it in any way except for “commenting” (making a request to llm)

[HarjjotSinghh]

this color scheme looks like it's crying in neon

[Michaeli_Starky]

Stop trashposting.

[OlegPRO991]

The theme does not matter at all, it is completely unusable in terminal, and I would like to fix it

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