ls colors too dark on a black background terminal

[Aaron Schlaegel]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> i use KDE's konsole with a black background as my terminal.  when i use the
> ls command, the colors show up too dark.  how can i change it to use colors
> suitable for a dark background?

I like my xterms with a black background also. Fedora comes with two separate
DIRCOLORS files, one for xterms and one for everything else. These two files
are easily overridden with a file in your home directory.

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS ~/.dircolors

This will make all terminals use the bright colors that stand out on a dark
background.