[PLUG] !@#$% Color in PuTTY terminals
gilmanhunt at comcast.net
gilmanhunt at comcast.net
Tue May 25 14:16:02 UTC 2004
dircolors man page:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/linux/man2html/man1/dircolors.1.html
Could you make a ~/.dircolors file, and then put in your profile / login script the running of dircolors with this particular file? You could set them all to white.
-R
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Josh Orchard wrote:
>
> > I too use putty to access my servers and the color comes up. As much
> > as I like the color to quickly identify files. Nice to see what is
> > executible. The folder color and others by default have been a
> > challenge. I have found that if I just change the hue of the blue in
> > Putty for that one connection then it is fine. My problem has been
> > with ANSI Blue. I just make it brighter.
>
> I was hoping to not have to do this as it is (as you mention below) a pain
> from all the clients I use to ssh into the servers.
>
> > Go into teh Window - Color section of Putty and change them. You can
> > either set it while in that section by clicking on the left upper
> > window bar and chossing 'change Settings' or you can do it permanently
> > by loading the save session and changing it in the options to the
> > left.
>
> Do this regularly -- the right click thingy -- then forget to fix it
> permanently when I have the PuTTY main window up.
>
> > I fought with the color mappings on linux for many different
> > connections including telnet(windows and *inx), exceed, and putty. I
> > just found changing the client to be easier and faster.
>
> I'm about half tempted to change the DIRCOLORS file and be done with it
> but others tht ssh in might have an issue with that.
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestions,
> Rod
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