Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

2008-02-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
John Salmon wrote: The real problem is my 72 year old eyes. I have a lot of trouble reading some of the pre-selected list colors in 'ls'. I'm running Etch, Bash and Gnome on a Dell OptiPlex. I have a small '.bmp' file that I use as a place holder in image file groups. 'ls' shows this file name

Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

2008-02-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Salmon: > > The real problem is my 72 year old eyes. I have a lot of trouble reading > some of the pre-selected list colors in 'ls'. If you are using some terminal emulator in X, the easiest solution is to change the colors for this terminal. gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal (which is what I u

Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

2008-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-14 10:11:54 -0600, John Salmon wrote: [...] > Noting that this could be a problem, I followed the book and ran 'dircolors > -p > colors'. I edited the 'colors' file to make '.bmp' files show as bold > black on cyan and then ran 'dircolors colors'. 'echo $LS_COLORS' showed no > change