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him610

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From: Pennsylvania USA

Registered: 2022-02-19

Posts: 28

xfce4-terminal - color of directories/folders

Hello,

I have a frustrating issue I have been unsuccessful in finding a fix/setting.

Background info: Xubuntu 22.04.3, xfce4 version 4.16, Settings Appearance Greybird-dark, xfce4-terminal 0.8.10 Preferences Color Presets 'White on Black'.
Also have "alias ll='ls -alF --color=auto'" defined in .bash_aliases

The background of xfce4-terminal is black, the text is white; however, the directories/folders show up as dark blue which makes it hard to read.

What settings must be changed for the directories/folders to show up in a lighter color while leaving the other settings as they are?

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,830

Re: xfce4-terminal - color of directories/folders

You need to comment our the alias command (it is adding the colors) or alternatively run:

\ls

...(note the backslash) and it will run the unaliased version of ls.

If you want to change the actual colors of the scheme, you should create a custom theme. To do so, create the file ~/.local/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes/custom.theme (create the directories if they don't exist) with the following content:

[Scheme]
Name=Custom Theme
ColorForeground=#ffffff
ColorBackground=#000000
ColorPalette=#000000;#aa0000;#00aa00;#aa5500;#0000aa;#aa00aa;#00aaaa;#aaaaaa;#555555;#ff5555;#55ff55;#ffff55;#ff0000;#ff55ff;#55ffff;#ffffff

The color used for the directory listing is the 13th one (set to #ff0000 above) - so change it to whatever color you would like. Then open Terminal preferences and select the "Custom Theme" preset.

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