[Solved] xfce-terminal -- some files greyed out

[mpz_t]

I often "cp -a" a file before making changes and I usually assign a suffix of ".bak" to those files. But later, when I want to display files with "ls", the ones with the ".bak" suffix are greyed and barely visible. Is there a way to change this?

[fabien]

Hello,

Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and with --color=never. With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only when standard output is connected to a terminal. The
LS_COLORS environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors(1) command to set it.

Check that you have something like this in your ~/.bashrc

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# enable color support of ls
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
   test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
fi

SYNOPSIS
       dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]
[...]
       -p, --print-database
              output defaults
[...]
      If  FILE  is  specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled database is used.  For details on the format of these files, run
       'dircolors --print-database'.

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$> dircolors --print-database > ~/.dircolors

edit ~/.dircolors to your liking

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$> dircolors --print-ls-colors | grep "\.bak"
*.bak	00;90
$> dircolors --print-ls-colors ~/.dircolors | grep "\.bak"
*.bak	00;91

[CwF]

This can be controlled by the xfce4-terminal theme. You could try other default themes, or dive into customizing one for yourself. Now, in 1.0.4, this setting is in Terminal Preferences>Colors>Presets at the bottom of the tab.

[mpz_t]

Hello,

Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and with --color=never. With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only when standard output is connected to a terminal. The
LS_COLORS environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors(1) command to set it.

Check that you have something like this in your ~/.bashrc

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# enable color support of ls
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
   test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
fi

SYNOPSIS
       dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]
[...]
       -p, --print-database
              output defaults
[...]
      If  FILE  is  specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled database is used.  For details on the format of these files, run
       'dircolors --print-database'.

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$> dircolors --print-database > ~/.dircolors

edit ~/.dircolors to your liking

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$> dircolors --print-ls-colors | grep "\.bak"
*.bak	00;90
$> dircolors --print-ls-colors ~/.dircolors | grep "\.bak"
*.bak	00;91

dircolors 00;91 changed color to red, how do I change it to white?

[fabien]

Thanks for marking you topic as solved.

dircolors 00;91 changed color to red, how do I change it to white?

How about experimenting a little?

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$> echo -e "\e[00;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;33m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;34m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[01;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[02;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;92m test \e[0m"

Bash tips: Colors and formatting (ANSI/VT100 Control sequences)
ANSI escape code

[mpz_t]

Thanks for marking you topic as solved.

dircolors 00;91 changed color to red, how do I change it to white?

How about experimenting a little?

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$> echo -e "\e[00;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;33m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;34m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[01;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[02;32m test \e[0m"

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$> echo -e "\e[00;92m test \e[0m"

Bash tips: Colors and formatting (ANSI/VT100 Control sequences)
ANSI escape code

I commented out the ".bak" entry in ~/.dircolors and that seems to work.