[NTLUG:Discuss] change terminal colors

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Tue Sep 4 09:16:10 CDT 2001


At 08:30 AM 9/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to permanently change the terminal colors on Linux.
>I'm using SuSE 7.2.  I can echo control characters to the screen and get the
>desired color change, but it will be reset whenever any app (that writes
>color to the screen ie: vi, ls) is run.  Any suggestions?

colors for what app?
Each app has it own set of color coding...
ls can be changed by setting the LS_COLOR env varilable.
vi's can be changed by setting up a .vimrc, since most distros now link vi 
to vim in the background.


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