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11-27-2008, 04:17 AM
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Registered: Apr 2008
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How to change shell to have nice colors and look cool? Penguin likes cool colors!
My shell has different colors when I use the "ls" command for different files and directories. Sometimes the name is highlighted, and I can not read it. Penguin squaks when can't read it! How can I change the colors for the shell, and change the colors that the files show up in with the ls command? How can I change the shell background color and text color? What colors will look cool and be easy to read, and make the Penguin happy?
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11-27-2008, 04:50 AM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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I am at work now so I won't tell you exactly, but I believe in the EDIT menu of konsole/terminal there is a profile option. You can create a new profile (customize your colours, transparency, etc.)
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11-28-2008, 08:22 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Madrid
Distribution: RHEL, Kubuntu, Solaris, TRU64
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"dircolors" takes care of that. You can read the documentation for it:
man dircolors
It's a bit different for each distro. I.e, RHAT & Fedora use a file /etc/DIR_COLORS like this:
# Text color codes:
# 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
# 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something.
FILE 00 # normal file
DIR 01;34 # directory
LINK 01;36 # symbolic link
FIFO 40;33 # pipe
SOCK 01;35 # socket
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11-28-2008, 12:55 PM
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Registered: Apr 2008
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Thanks, I want to see if that will help as soon as I can figure out how to boot Linux again so that I can try it..
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