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Re: text colors in terminals (ls command)

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Hi there


On 04/03/2023 10:25, Bazza wrote:

> In Alma Linux 9, the ls command shows directories in dark blue, which is 
> hard to read. One can use ls --color=never to avoid this.
> konsole seems broken: ls shows directories with 47m in front, e.g. 
> 47mDownloads
> I presume 47 is the code for dark blue.
> ls command in terminal, xfce-terminal show the dark blue.
> ye olde xterm seems best: off-white background, so directories are visible
> 
> In Debian, ls shows directories in blue, but no so stupidly dark as Alma.

You can actually set the RGB values of each colour in ~/.Xresources.
E.G.:

*VT100*color4: rgb:00/44/ee
URxvt.color4:  #0044ee
URxvt.color12: #5555ff

Then run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources


Regards,
Rob

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text colors in terminals (ls command) Bazza <suzywng@outlook.com> - 2023-03-04 17:25 +0800
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