How to change console color scheme?

[April]

How do I get rid of this ridiculous colour scheme for my console please.

I can't see a damn thing.!
It comes up well here but in the screen it just seems to blur up!

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[williwaw]

colored type in the terminal can be annoying, but without knowing what terminal emulator this is, it is hard to speculate where the configuration file is

[snoring_cat]

April,

Please try running the following and adjusting your colors

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urxvtcontrol

you will have to open new terminals to see the effects

[April]

@snoring_cat Thanks that helped .
There is still some other setting that changes the colours according to the file types and now I cannot even read "root" but I can live with that . At least I was able to enlarge the text which made a big diff.

[April]

I had not noticed that before
urxvtcontrol deals with one console and can also be started from the menu button.

Another console comes up when started from urxvt terminal emulator. A much easier terminal to view. Strange

[bigpup]

What specific Puppy version?

[snoring_cat]

if you change "Text" to white, and "Background" to black in URXVt Terminal Control, you should be able to see all colors easily. After you apply changes, all future URXVT terminals will show the color scheme you made. Good Luck seeing "root".

[April]

@bigpup Xenialpup64-7.5

[April]

if you change "Text" to white, and "Background" to black in URXVt Terminal Control, you should be able to see all colors easily. After you apply changes, all future URXVT terminals will show the color scheme you made. Good Luck seeing "root".

Yes ,in fact that's much better with a black background , thank you.

Started from the Menu the urxvt console there is not changed . Still a white background.

[6502coder]

If you don't want "ls" to use coloring to distinguish different types of files, edit your ~/.bashrc file as follows:

Find the line that reads

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      alias ls=...blahblahblah...

and change this to

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      alias ls="/bin/ls --color=never"

If you want directories to be marked with a trailing "/" and symlinks to be marked with a trailing "@", use

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     alias ls="/bin/ls --color=never -F"

To set the urxvt colors, edit your ~/.Xdefaults file as follows:

Find the line that reads

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     URxvt.foreground: "some color"

and change it to

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     URxvt.foreground: "white"

Set URxvt.background in the same way:

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     URxvt.background: "black"

[snoring_cat]

When you are able to get a console to show the colors you want, as well as a console that does not show the colors you want, please run the following in a command line and paste the response to a post

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ps -ef | grep vt

Note that these consoles should have been opened after you ran Urxvt Terminal Control and hit the Apply button, so that your changes are saved to .Xdefaults.

I suspect that you might be running urxvt and rxvt. Those are two separate console programs, even though they look the same when run. rxvt settings aren't updated in the .Xdefaults file when using Urxvt Terminal Control. If that is the case, you will have to edit the /root/Xdefaults file and add 2 lines. Near the following lines in that file

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urxvt.background:#000000
urxvt.foreground:#ffffff

Add

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rxvt.background:#000000
rxvt.foreground:#ffffff

[April]

Yes you are right I think but I have colours I can see now so I'll leave it as is . Thanks again

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[Zuzia]

All answer can help but if you wont nice color in terminal easy way.
Use this site.

https://terminal.sexy/

Save theme on disk change "*" to your terminal name urxvt or rxvt or other who can use /root/.Xdefaults and paste here that section.

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!zuzia terminal  urxvt colors

! special
urxvt.foreground:   #ababab
urxvt.background:   #000000
urxvt.cursorColor:  #ababab

! black
urxvt.color0:       #000000
urxvt.color8:       #343434

! red
urxvt.color1:       #e92f2f
urxvt.color9:       #e92f2f

! green
urxvt.color2:       #0ed839
urxvt.color10:      #0ed839

! yellow
urxvt.color3:       #dddd13
urxvt.color11:      #dddd13

! blue
urxvt.color4:       #3b48e3
urxvt.color12:      #3b48e3

! magenta
urxvt.color5:       #f996e2
urxvt.color13:      #f996e2

! cyan
urxvt.color6:       #23edda
urxvt.color14:      #23edda

! white
urxvt.color7:       #ababab
urxvt.color15:      #f9f9f9

This is my terminal colors you can generate yours... good luck!
I hope i can help You all... Bye! Cheers from Poland!

[JASpup]

I had not noticed that before
urxvtcontrol deals with one console and can also be started from the menu button.

Another console comes up when started from urxvt terminal emulator. A much easier terminal to view. Strange

Yes.

After I started installing more full-featured consoles, I noticed that some puppies already have multiple consoles installed, sometimes as many as three, still not as versatile as alt-consoles or as readily configurable as urxvt with the control utility.

You can change your console colors and run a script in terminal that won't have them. It's a lot of nuance to observe everything so I only attend to problems and disturbances (like not being able to see text).

UPDATE (example):

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This is my Tahr remaster.

I just reconfigured my urxvt colors (bottom window).

The configuration file was not saved in the remaster, so I do this almost every boot.

The top window is the terminal that runs when I click on a launcher as Terminal=true.