Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 03:13:00 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
> On 23/6/21 2:39 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation
> > > > of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere.
> >
> > > Excerpt from .bashrc file:
> > >
> > > "
> > >
> > > # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
> > > # case "$TERM" in
> > > # xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
> > > # esac
> > >
> > > # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
> > > # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
> > > # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
> > > #force_color_prompt=yes
> >
> > All of that code is just for setting the shell's prompt. It has nothing
> > to do with how the terminal interprets color codes.
> >
>
> Funnily enough, given what you contend, before I commented out the
> colouring in stuff, when running ls -lh, directory names were
> displayed in blue text, and, after I commented out the colouring in
> stuff, running ls -lh, the output was all displayed in black text.
Your "colouring in stuff" included dircolors.
Cheers,
David.
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