How do I change the color of text on terminals?

Kush

11/8/22, 2:26 PM

For some reason, I've lost all the colors on the terminal and all the text is in white as per the link below

I'm not entirely sure why it got changed automatically, but I'm not able to bring colors back to any of the terminals I've tried (default terminal, hyper, guake). So just that the location and username is in different color and I could tell them apart. Even in the image, ls -l showed everything in white whereas earlier it was showing folders in one particular color and files in one color.

I've tried to look for preferences in each of the terminal separately, but it seems to be some other setting that I may have changed accidentally.

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sudodus

11/8/22, 2:57 PM

Which version of Ubuntu is it? Are you using bash (or some other command line interpreter)? Chick with `alias ls`, and if no (or error) output, try with `alias ls='ls --color=auto'`, and add that into your `"/.bashrc` file. If this is not the problem, please enter the settings menu of your terminal emulator and modify its settings (rendering colours might be turned off).

Michal Przybylowicz

11/8/22, 2:57 PM

Try `ls --color=always` does this display colors?

ubfan1

11/8/22, 3:44 PM

Check that your .bashrc file is copied from /etc/skel/.bashrc. If you deleted your .bashrc, you would default back to the system default without all the color aliases.

Kush

11/8/22, 3:55 PM

So I've got Ubuntu 20.04.2 using ```ls --color=always``` I managed to add color to this command, but how would I be able to change the colors for the terminal text in general?

sudodus

11/8/22, 7:53 PM

What about `ls --color=auto` ? If it does not work, please replace `alias ls='ls --color=auto'` with `alias ls='ls --color=always'` in your bash configuration file `~/.bashrc`, run `source ~/.bashrc` and try `ls` again. (If for some reason there is no alias line for `ls` in your bash configuration file, please add it.)