[FIXED] Problems setting up a new theme in Ipython?

Issue

I would like to use another theme for Ipython notebook so I following this instructions the problem is I'm in OSX and I dont have the wget, I installed it homebrew. Could somebody help me to set ipython notebooks in a dark theme?. I tried this:

brew /Users/user/.ipython/profile_notebooks/static/custom/custom.css
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsonnad/base16-ipython-notebook/master/base16-ocean-dark.css

Solution

You can do it with curl or by manually downloading the theme. I have given steps for both the options below.

Create a custom profile using the following command:

ipython profile create ocean

Replace the content of the default stylesheet custom.css with that of the required theme using the following command

Using curl:

curl -o `ipython locate profile ocean`/static/custom/custom.css https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsonnad/base16-ipython-notebook/master/base16-ocean-dark.css

Start the IPython notebook by specifying the custom profile e.g.

ipython notebook --profile=ocean

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Alternative:

If you are not able to download using curl, you can simply download the base16-ocean-dark.css and replace the custom.css in the custom directory of your created profile.

Locate the profile directory:

ipython locate profile ocean

Go to its static/custom directory and replace the content of custom.css with that of downloaded css file. Start the IPython notebook by specifying the custom profile as shown above.

Answered By - Amit Verma