DIR_COLORS, How to change blue to a darker blue, such as "Navy"?

Beartooth Beartooth at swva.net
Fri Dec 28 18:45:06 UTC 2007


On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:42:00 +1030, Tim wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 08:00 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
[...]
>> My problem is that blue (0,0,255) is a bright dazzling blue color and I
>> need to tone it down a bit to something like "Navy" in X terminology.
>> 
>> How can this be done or is it hardwired?
> 
> Depending on your terminal, you can play with the escape codes so that
> it's not blue colour PLUS bright up, or simply change the palette (gnome
> terminal has preferences for its "profile" that let you change how the
> colour blue, for instance, will be drawn.

	I second that. 

	Since before Fedora, I've been running gnome-terminal with 
several tabs, background colors chosen both to be easy on my arthritic 
eyeballs, and to contrast with one another : user on own machine is soft 
green, root is a soft blue with deep blood-red letters (deep enough not 
to blast the eyes, but discernibly red), user running elsewhere over ssh 
or scp is a soft pink, root/ssh lavender, etc., etc.

	All this is as easy to do as it is convenient -- and helps keep 
me from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place under the wrong 
permissions. 

	All praise to the gnome-terminal developers!
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8; Alpine 0.99999, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




More information about the fedora-list mailing list