Need help with colored icons

[manhtq0508]

I read the documentation about setting icons for lf, and at the end of it, I found a sample colored icons file. I copied the entire example file and pasted it into ~/.config/lf/icons to try it out. However, it didn’t display any icons like the image below (if I use the example file icons.example, it works normally). I used lf -log logs.log to investigate what happened and found this line:

...
2024/09/02 22:45:18 reading icons file: expected pair but found: *.styl              00;38;2;141;193;73
...

Based on that log, it seems that the icons file expects only 2 columns: one for the file type and one for the icon. However, according to pull request #1674, it should be possible to use 3 columns to change the icon color.

Some information may be helpful:

Distro: Arch Linux 
Kernel: 6.10.7-arch1-1 
Shell: zsh 5.9 
Terminal: kitty 0.36.1

$ lf --version
32

How can I correctly configure colored icons in lf?

[joelim-work]

That is because the latest released version is r32, but support for colored icons was added after that point. It is scheduled to be released in r33.

There hasn't been any changes recently, and it has been close to half a year since the last release, so I think it is a good time to make this new version. This is normally handled by @gokcehan though, who I assume has been busy with other stuff lately.

[manhtq0508]

Thanks for your help