Oh-my-zsh theme not rendering properly in IntelliJ

Question

Cobalt2 theme does not render properly in the terminal in IntelliJ but works fine in the Mac terminal. How do I correct this?

Answer 1

Thought I'd add for anyone Googling this "zsh themes being broken in IntelliJ" ...especially Powerlevel10k ... you can conditionally switch the theme to a compatible one for your IntelliJ console, and keep the nice one for your main terminal. In .zshrc :

if [[ $__INTELLIJ_COMMAND_HISTFILE__ ]]; then
  ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
else
  ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
fi

Hope that helps someone :-)

Answer 2

Please follow this known bug for updates:

• IDEA-165506 Incorrect style for zsh theme

Answer 3

Changing the color scheme in IntelliJ to the same color scheme you're using in your OS terminal should solve this.

I'm using the Dracula Theme in iTerm2, and I installed the IDE color scheme from here Jetbrains Dracula Theme and it's all displaying as expected.

Here's what my PHPStorm terminal looks like now.