On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:11:03PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
hi,
On 06/03/2008, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
I really can't understand how the default values can work on any normal terminal! :-)
Normal is black background. Don't believe me? Look at tty1 :)
On a white (well actually a very pale grey in my case, grey90 I think) background few of the bright colours work well at all so why does the default use them, surely most people use a light background nowadays.
What makes you think that most people use white background?
Well even if they don't just do a Google search for LS_COLORS and you'll find lots of people complaining about them not working well on dark backgrounds. :-)
I don't think I want/need any of the file type colouring but colours for directories, symbolic links (especially broken ones) and a few other things might be useful.
I think there's some file that you can edit to change the colours, maybe in /etc somewhere.
There's a utility, of sorts, called dircolors. I was just hoping someone else might have done some of the work for me.