Linux: File Colors

[scottalanmiller]

@Dashrender said:

Does putty support this?

Yes

[guyinpv]

I find the dark blue color for folders abhorrent. My eyes can hardly read it!

In PuTTY, you can go to the "Colours" section under "Window" and change it.
A common color for blue might be 74, 74, 255 and dark blue 140, 140, 255.

You have to save the session and give it a name in order to change these settings. And then after changing setting you have to save again.

On the topic of color, I like to narrow the contrast a little. Instead of pure black background I like a dark dark grey with a hint of blue, like 40,40,45 with the foreground text 230,230,230 instead of pure white.

[momurda]

From ubuntu 1604 through Putty

[guyinpv]

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

[thwr]

@Dashrender said in Linux: File Colors:

Does putty support this?

Basically every terminal emulator can, because the technique behind is - wild guessing here - at least 20 years old.

Basically, the color-encoded data that is getting sent from the shell looks like this:

testing \033[0;37;41mCOLOR1\033[1;35;44mCOLOR2\033[m

That will be parsed by the terminal emulator. There is (or should be, can't find a source for this right now) some magic behind, for example a color-capable terminal tells the server side that he can safely send color codes. You would see a lot of garbage otherwise.

Here's some good info about colors in shells: http://bitmote.com/index.php?post/2012/11/19/Using-ANSI-Color-Codes-to-Colorize-Your-Bash-Prompt-on-Linux (grabbed the string above from there)

[thwr]

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

Fonts are a client-side thing, the data is plain ASCII/UTF8/whatever

[guyinpv]

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

Fonts are a client-side thing, the data is plain ASCII/UTF8/whatever

Didn't say it wasn't.
I mentioned PuTTY in Windows. I particularly like Consolas, I also use it for programming.

[guyinpv]

Can someone explain why my screenshot jpg is being stretched? I don't see any settings or data about it being resized. It's not that big!

[thwr]

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

Fonts are a client-side thing, the data is plain ASCII/UTF8/whatever

Didn't say it wasn't.
I mentioned PuTTY in Windows. I particularly like Consolas, I also use it for programming.

Didn't mean to offend you, just wanted to clarify. Not everyone here is a Linux guru

[thwr]

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

Fonts are a client-side thing, the data is plain ASCII/UTF8/whatever

Didn't say it wasn't.
I mentioned PuTTY in Windows. I particularly like Consolas, I also use it for programming.

Didn't mean to offend you, just wanted to clarify. Not everyone here is a Linux guru

OMG, that sounds very SAM-ish...

[guyinpv]

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

@thwr said in Linux: File Colors:

@guyinpv said in Linux: File Colors:

PuTTY, CentOS.
I also use Consolas, 14pt text.

Fonts are a client-side thing, the data is plain ASCII/UTF8/whatever

Didn't say it wasn't.
I mentioned PuTTY in Windows. I particularly like Consolas, I also use it for programming.

Didn't mean to offend you, just wanted to clarify. Not everyone here is a Linux guru

OMG, that sounds very SAM-ish...

Here you go.

OH, you said SAM-ish, whoops.