Icons changed color after update?

[careb0t]

What system are you running Yazi on?

Linux Wayland

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

ghostty v1.2.3

yazi --debug output

Yazi
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    Triple : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (linux-x86_64)
    Rustc  : 1.93.0 (254b5960 2026-01-19)

Ya
    Version: 26.1.22 (Arch Linux 2026-01-24)

Config
    Init             : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/init.lua (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Yazi             : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/yazi.toml (1484 chars)
    Keymap           : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/keymap.toml (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Theme            : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/theme.toml (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    VFS              : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/vfs.toml (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Package          : /home/careb0t/.config/yazi/package.toml (116 chars)
    Dark/light flavor: "" / ""

Emulator
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SSH
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WSL
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Text Opener
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    block-rename: Some(OpenerRule { run: "nvim \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "", for: None, spread: true })

Multiplexers
    TMUX               : false
    tmux version       : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    tmux build flags   : enable-sixel=Unknown
    ZELLIJ_SESSION_NAME: None
    Zellij version     : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Dependencies
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    ueberzugpp    : No such file or directory (os error 2)
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    chafa         : No such file or directory (os error 2)
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Clipboard
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    xclip        : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    xsel         : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Routine
    `file -bL --mime-type`: text/plain


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Describe the question

After updating my packages today, I noticed that the icons for folders, certain file types, etc. have changed to what looks like a default color scheme, which I am trying to figure out how to disable. I want yazi to just use my default terminal colors for icons, which is what it was doing before this update. I've never created any theme or flavor file in my config folder. How can I go back to having yazi use my default terminal colors for icons?

Here is what the icons look like with the new colors after the update. Before, the icons just used the dark teal, dark pink, etc. colors that my terminal theme uses.

And this is what they looked like before and how I would like them to look again.

Anything else?

No response

Checklist

• I have read all the documentation
• I have searched the existing discussions/issues

[sxyazi]

You can overwrite the preset directory icons with prepend_conds, e.g.:

[icon]
prepend_conds = [
  { if = "dir", text = "", fg = "blue" },
]

If you don't want to set a color for the icon and want it to inherit the parent element's color, remove the fg field:

[icon]
prepend_conds = [
  { if = "dir", text = "" },
]

Doc of [icon]: https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/configuration/theme#icon

[careb0t]

Thanks!

If I want all icons to use the same glyph as they do now, and inherit the parent element's color, what would be the best way of going about this? Would I have to essentially rewrite all of the default icon rules for all of the different element globs, dirs, files, exts, and conds, and just remove the fg property from all of them so that they inherit the parent element color? If so, is there a default theme.toml file you could link me to, because there must be at least a couple dozens of different icon rules and there is no way I could figure out all of them myself.

[sxyazi]

If you just want to override the icons for folders, prepend_conds and prepend_dirs should do the trick. You can find the preset configs at https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/configuration/overview

[careb0t]

I don't want to change the icon glyph itself for any folders or files. I want to change only the color of the icon for all elements (directories, files, links, etc.) to their parent element's color. If I want to do this, do I need to copy the entire [icon] section of the default theme.toml file and just remove the fg properties from each? Or is there a simpler way to do this?

[sxyazi]

Yes, you can override the Entity:icon method in your init.lua to remove all icon styles (files, folders, links, etc.):

function Entity:icon()
  local icon = self._file:icon()
  if not icon then
    return ""
  else
    return icon.text .. " "
  end
end

[careb0t]

Awesome! This does exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for the quick help!