Changing terminal colors

[eddyq]

I just installed Fedora 10. I used the VMware settings to share some Windows folders. They appear in /mnt/hgfs. But if I ls there, the color of the folders is very difficult to read the folder names.

I notice that if I ls in my home directory then the color is just fine.

I notice a difference in the folder attributes:
In ~ I see this drwxr-xr-x for a folder.
In /mnt/hgfs I wee this drwxrwxrwx for a folder.

How do I change the terminal colors for a folder with drwxrwxrwx attributes?

[glennzo]

Moved to EOL (End Of Life) Versions.

[george_toolan]

What kind of Desktop Environment and Terminal do you use? Try

export | grep -i color

[eddyq]

It gives this:
declare -x COLORTERM="gnome-terminal"
declare -x LS_COLORS=""

---------- Post added at 01:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:30 PM ----------

I found /etc/DIR_COLORS. I copied it to ~/.dir_colors. Since the folders in /mnt/hgfs are green background and black text I searched and found
STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 30;42 # dir that is sticky and other-writable (+t,o+w)
which match with the colors I see. So I changed it to 30;43, saved the file, exit'd, then restarted terminal. But that didn't change the colors.
I have shown that .dir_colors works because I changed the color of normal files and that worked.

Any ideas?

[george_toolan]

drwxrwxrwx

Where do you see a "+t" in there? The directory is not sticky, so try

OTHER_WRITABLE 34;42 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky

[smr54]

To get rid of the colors you can do

\ls whatever

If you want to get rid of the colors for the entire session, then you can do

unalias ls


To change the colors used, you can copy /etc/DIR_COLORS to ~/.dir_colors (The ~ meaning your home directory and the period in front of the name means that it's a hidden directory) and play around with them to change the default color choices. To disable the system wide color choosing you have to find the script in /etc/profile.d and remove or change that.

If all you want is to change the colors used, the first solution is the best, copy DIR_COLORS to ~/.dir_colors. You can play around with the choices they make in there for various files, that is, change the numbers. For example, I think the default for a gz file is 01;31, bright red. Change that to 01;32 and it will show up as green.

[PabloTwo]

Here is what you want in your ~/.dir_colors file:

OTHER_WRITABLE 01;34 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky

[eddyq]

Ok, thanks ... that did it