Hi dEnDrOn,

Yeah that's the one. Just copy it as .dir_colors into your home directory and it will override the other ones. Right now all the color codes are for the 16-color scheme, which won't be taking advantage of the 256-color capability.

The first thing I would do is change the "COLOR tty" line to "COLOR all" so you actually see the colors on all your terminals. Then in the command line I would make sure I have 256 colors enabled with
(you have Fedora so I'm pretty certain your default terminal will have them). If you don't you might have reconfigure the terminal with the 256 color option and recompile it (I had to with the SlackBuild of urxvt).

Anyway, then you can start making the changes. Note that 256 ANSI color codes have three fields instead of two, so your color codes will look something like 38;5;# where # is the number of the color (the 38;5 is just the foreground color attribute; see here for more on attributes). To see all the colors and their numbers, download this script and run it with
.
And one last thing: When it comes time to change all those image files, you won't want to go through line by line by hand, so here's a handy sed command you can run right from the command line:
so to change all the image files from the default bold magenta (01;35) to a light pink (38;5;213) you would do
.

i install windowmaker and use a custom desktop background and use xmms skins, but other than that, nothing.

thanks for the detailed help...I'd surely customize it...-_-

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