Setting - Directory / File colors for SSH terminal connections

young_rhkid · 02-23-2007, 12:14 PM

I have noticed an annoying issue with one of the servers at work. When I login via SSH, the directory and file colors are a bit dull.

This is not the end of the world but drives me nuts to stare at the midnight blue directory colors on a black background.

On other servers, the directory colors are much brighter.

How do I change the global option for the color display?

Tinkster · 02-23-2007, 01:43 PM

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

To answer the question:
just change the alias for ls NOT to display colours ;}

In Slackware you could modify /etc/DIR_COLORS

Cheers,
Tink

Marel · 10-21-2010, 05:56 AM

Well, this looks like 3 years old thread, so I was wondering if someone in meantime managed to find a real solution, since previous solution totally disables colors. I need syntax highlighting and normal colors. This colors which appear in VIM in SSH session are for white background, but I use black background and on both machines when login locally, there are appropriate colors (for black background). In shell, colors are OK.

Expeto · 10-21-2010, 10:57 AM

maybe "tput setab {colorcode}" can provide a workaround to you.

{colorcode}
0 Black
1 Red
2 Green
3 Yellow
4 Blue
5 Magenta
6 Cyan
7 White

bikenskigeek · 08-25-2011, 05:29 PM

Tinkster's suggestion (the second one) helped me find my solution, which was to find the DIR_COLORS file, which was in /etc in my RHE4 environment. The file's comments were thorough, simple, and quite usable even without root access. Other search results were fruitful too (especially for Debian users who don't appear to have this file):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3416020
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post3065957

Marel · 08-27-2011, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bikenskigeek

Tinkster's suggestion (the second one) helped me find my solution, which was to find the DIR_COLORS file, which was in /etc in my RHE4 environment. The file's comments were thorough, simple, and quite usable even without root access. Other search results were fruitful too (especially for Debian users who don't appear to have this file):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3416020
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post3065957

Well, when speaking of VIM particularly, setting 'background={dark|light}' can help

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