Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

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 in green with a white background. Doing 'echo $LS_COLORS' shows 
> that '.bmp' files should be shown in bold magenta with a white background 
> (bm on white).

Please check that the file in question does not have the execute bit 
set. It may be showing up in green because ls thinks it is an executable 
file.

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Raj Kiran Grandhi