Q: brighten text in shell

[TheUsualAlex]

Hi,

In your shell prompt where your background is dark, is there a way to tell linux to "brighten" the text? Obviously, the black and blue doesn't go well. Basically, I am looking for something like Vi's set background=dark kind of deal so that text will get "brightened" against the dark background...

Am I making any sense here...?

Thanks,

A

[Marc]

What desktop are you using? In KDE there is a 'settings' menu in the shell where you can set the 'schema' to whatever you want.

If you feel like mucking with the colours that are output when you type ls (which is kinda fun), do this :

type 'dircolors -p > colors.txt' into a shell

edit colors.txt and you can mess with the colours as much as you like.

To get those colors into your environment type :

dircolors -c colors.txt (or -b if you're using a bourne shell)

Put the output of that into your .chsrc and bingo bango bob's your uncle.

Hope thats clear.

M

[TheUsualAlex]

What desktop are you using? In KDE there is a 'settings' menu in the shell where you can set the 'schema' to whatever you want.

If you feel like mucking with the colours that are output when you type ls (which is kinda fun), do this :

type 'dircolors -p > colors.txt' into a shell

edit colors.txt and you can mess with the colours as much as you like.

To get those colors into your environment type :

dircolors -c colors.txt (or -b if you're using a bourne shell)

Put the output of that into your .chsrc and bingo bango bob's your uncle.

Hope thats clear.

M

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Thanks Marc! I didn't know about the dircolors command. Pretty cool!

[MG]

Changing the colors for xterm is also not that hard, just look it up in it's manpage or "xterm -h" (if not mistaking).