# New to Kakoune, issues with themes and fzf **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [April 13, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466 "2024-04-13T15:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/aleivk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/1 "2024-04-13T15:29:48Z")
I just got into Kakoune courtesy of a YouTube video and so far it has been working pretty well, except for two things. 1. I tried to create my own theme using kakoune-ink but the generated file doesn’t seem to be working too well? # code face value rgb:547378,default face type rgb:547378,default face identifier rgb:547378,default face string rgb:547378,default face error default,rgb:000000 face keyword rgb:ffa58a,default+b face operator rgb:212121,default face attribute rgb:000000,default face comment rgb:e2a5a2,default face meta rgb:787878,default # text face title rgb:547378,default+b face header rgb:000000,default face bold rgb:000000,default+b face italic rgb:121212,default+i face mono rgb:333333,rgb:dedede face block rgb:333333,rgb:dedede face link rgb:000000,default face bullet rgb:000000,default face list rgb:212121,default # kakoune UI face Default rgb:547378,rgb:faf3eb+N face PrimarySelection rgb:ffffff,rgb:e2a5a2 face SecondarySelection rgb:ffffff,rgb:d4817d face PrimaryCursor rgb:ffffff,rgb:e2a5a2+b face SecondaryCursor rgb:ffffff,rgb:d4817d+b face MatchingChar default,rgb:cccccc face Search default,rgb:cccccc face Whitespace default,rgb:cccccc face BufferPadding rgb:cccccc,default face LineNumbers rgb:e2a5a2,default face LineNumberCursor rgb:999999,default face MenuForeground rgb:547378,rgb:f5ed00+N face MenuBackground rgb:ffffff,rgb:ffa58a face MenuInfo default,rgb:f5ed00 face Information default,rgb:f5ed00 face Error rgb:ededed,rgb:212121 face StatusLine rgb:e2a5a2,rgb:f3eae2+N face StatusLineMode rgb:747378,rgb:f5ed00+b face StatusLineInfo rgb:747378,rgb:9dcfd8 face StatusLineValue rgb:747378,rgb:9dcfd8 face StatusCursor default,rgb:e2a5a2 face Prompt rgb:ffffff,rgb:ffa58a+b What’s wrong with it? Kakoune told me the following: \*\*\* This is the debug buffer, where debug info will be written \*\*\* /Users/name/.config/kak/colors/rochefort.kak:3:1: ‘face’: wrong argument count /Users/name/.config/kak/kakrc:2:1: ‘colorscheme’: 1:2: ‘evaluate-commands’: 1:1: ‘source’: 3:1: ‘face’: wrong argument count /opt/local/share/kak/kakrc:29:1: ‘evaluate-commands’: 141:1: ‘source’: 2:1: ‘colorscheme’: 1:2: ‘evaluate-commands’: 1:1: ‘source’: 3:1: ‘face’: wrong argument count error while parsing kakrc: 1:1: ‘source’: 29:1: ‘evaluate-commands’: 141:1: ‘source’: 2:1: ‘colorscheme’: 1:2: ‘evaluate-commands’: 1:1: ‘source’: 3:1: ‘face’: wrong argument count 1. Is there any way to integrate fzf into Kakoune in Kitty? I don’t feel super safe enabling remote control in Kitty and having to type kitty-terminal-tab fzf-termux is a lot of work. Much thanks in advanced! ---
**Author:** ![eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/eko234/32/1036_2.png) [@eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/eko234)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/2 "2024-04-13T15:44:44Z")
Hello and welcome, the first thing if I remember correctly, is because changes in the face API, kakoune ink is a little bit out of date, but it is easy to fix, I too have created color schemes with it, you just need to do a simple replace, let me check it out and I’ll be back :v ---
**Author:** ![eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/eko234/32/1036_2.png) [@eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/eko234)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/3 "2024-04-13T15:50:35Z")
Yup, if you look at the colors in master [kakoune/colors/default.kak at master · mawww/kakoune · GitHub](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/colors/default.kak), you can see you need to define the scope first, so most likely changing ‘face’ to ‘face global’ is what you want ---
**Author:** ![eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/eko234/32/1036_2.png) [@eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/eko234)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/4 "2024-04-13T15:52:28Z")
Which fzf plugin are you using? Btw, peneira is a good one to, it is more simple but suffers a bit when the candidate list is huge. But it does not needs to spawn another window in kitty, tmux or x. You might use kakoune inside tmux too so tmux handles that and not kitty ---
**Author:** ![aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/aleivk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/5 "2024-04-13T16:05:02Z")
I am currently just using the FZF snippet from the Fuzzy finder article from the Kakoune Wiki. I might check out peneira since it doesn’t seem to require fzf (which doesn’t go well with Kitty) but I worry that it might get abandoned like fzf.kak. Thanks for helping me with the theme! Kakoune also said that “+N” is not a valid face attribute. Not sure what “+N” used to do and what replaced it but I just deleted it and the themes seem to be working fine so all is well. ---
**Author:** ![eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/eko234/32/1036_2.png) [@eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/eko234)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/6 "2024-04-13T16:22:31Z")
Oh I understand that worry, it might be true that our plugin community is not as solid as others, but it is also a fact that understanding how things work is simpler as in less concepts involved, I use both peneira and fzf, I think they have not been updated in years but they still work, in fact peneira exposes a very nice API to build your own plugins with it, kakoune really enhanced my Unix skills, I know if some plugin goes away or dies, I can use those concepts to hack my way around 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@aleivk](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/aleivk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/7 "2024-04-13T17:21:52Z")
One more question: How do I change the colour of the flag in the status line? Like the one that goes [scratch] or [+] (according to this thread it’s supposedly called “flag”: [Some questions about scratch buffer on pre-packaged Arch kak](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/some-questions-about-scratch-buffer-on-pre-packaged-arch-kak/430)). It has the same background color as StatusLineMode yet still uses the foreground color of StatusLine which makes for a pretty unpleasant and barely readable combo. ---
**Author:** ![eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/eko234/32/1036_2.png) [@eko234](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/eko234)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/new-to-kakoune-issues-with-themes-and-fzf/2466/8 "2024-04-14T21:04:43Z")
Mmm, let me check, but what I’m gonna do is basically test some built in colors and see if the flag changes and why. This is how your colorscheme renders for me: ![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df0c49d3be8c7fd05b8461348f1e05b441f99535.png) I did some modifications so it looks like this: ![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fa32257f26df6f7bf5b6e2b84e00f27503ec2303.png) ![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bec76e2788b1186116409d3a3a4a712da9f4907f.png) face global value rgb:547378,default i i face global type rgb:547378,default face global identifier rgb:547378,default face global string rgb:547378,default face global error default,rgb:000000 face global keyword rgb:ffa58a,default+b face global operator rgb:212121,default face global attribute rgb:000000,default face global comment rgb:e2a5a2,default face global meta rgb:787878,default face global title rgb:547378,default+b face global header rgb:000000,default face global bold rgb:000000,default+b face global italic rgb:121212,default+i face global mono rgb:333333,rgb:dedede face global block rgb:333333,rgb:dedede face global link rgb:000000,default face global bullet rgb:000000,default face global list rgb:212121,default face global Default rgb:547378,rgb:faf3eb face global PrimarySelection rgb:ffffff,rgb:e2a5a2 face global SecondarySelection rgb:ffffff,rgb:d4817d face global PrimaryCursor rgb:ffffff,rgb:e2a5a2+b face global SecondaryCursor rgb:ffffff,rgb:d4817d+b face global MatchingChar default,rgb:cccccc face global Search default,rgb:cccccc face global Whitespace default,rgb:cccccc face global BufferPadding rgb:cccccc,default face global LineNumbers rgb:e2a5a2,default face global LineNumberCursor rgb:999999,default face global MenuForeground rgb:547378,rgb:ffa58a face global MenuBackground rgb:ffffff,rgb:ffa58a face global MenuInfo rgb:ffa58a,rgb:f3eae2 face global Information rgb:ffa58a,rgb:f3eae2 f face global Error rgb:ededed,rgb:212121 face global StatusLine rgb:e2a5a2,rgb:f3eae2 face global StatusLineMode rgb:747378,rgb:9dcfd8+b face global StatusLineInfo rgb:747378,rgb:9dcfd8 face global StatusLineValue rgb:747378,rgb:9dcfd8 face global StatusCursor default,rgb:e2a5a2 face global Prompt rgb:ffffff,rgb:ffa58a+b