Appearance

Themes

Antiphon ships a gallery of seventeen truecolor themes. Switch live with :theme <name> (bare :theme lists them); the choice persists to your config, or set it there directly:

[ui]
theme = "vespers"

Every screenshot below is the same mailbox; the status line names the theme.

Your own themes

A theme is one TOML file: a name and nineteen #rrggbb colour roles. Drop yours in ~/.config/antiphon/themes/<name>.toml and it joins the gallery; give it the name of a shipped theme to replace that theme. Copy a shipped file as your starting point; a broken file stops startup, naming the file and key at fault.

vespers

The house theme.

kanagawa-wave

catppuccin-mocha

gruvbox-dark

tokyo-night

nord

rose-pine

dracula

solarized-dark

solarized-light

gruvbox-light

catppuccin-latte

one-dark

everforest-dark

ayu-dark

github-dark

monokai

Layout

The list and pane are shaped in [ui]:

[ui]
reading_pane = "below"     # below | right | off
list_rows = 7              # rows when the pane is below
sidebar_width = 16         # columns, clamped to 10-40
date_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"   # any strftime pattern
inline_images = true       # render images in the pane

Press p to cycle the reading pane through below, right and off without touching config; B toggles the sidebar. The date_format string is split at its last space so the theme colours the date and time parts separately.

Tabs mode

To swap the nested account sidebar for a one-line tab bar above the panes:

[ui]
accounts_bar = "tabs"      # sidebar | tabs

The bar names unified and then every account in [accounts] order; the sidebar below shows only the active account's folders and your searches. These keys work in both modes:

Key	Jumps to
g1-g9	account tab 1 to 9
gu	the unified view
gt / gT	next / previous account

The settings Essentials tab toggles the mode live.