Hi all,

Am using PuTTY with mRemote when connecting to my servers.

I have different background for each of the type of servers and I group them as DEV, TEST, QUAL, PROD and SA. So PROD has white background, SA have blue, DEV has black and so on.

Problem is with a white background, running man commands hides some of the options that you will normally see when you have a black background. Worse is on a blue background, running ls, I can barely see the directories 'coz they are configured as blue as well. Even on a black background, the blue is barely visible. When running vim, I can hardly see the comments at all -

Does anyone have any tricks that I can use so that I can change the colors on the fly depending on the background that I am currently using, both for the LS_COLORS and vim?

Any advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

1. Try un-aliasing ls unalias ls
2. In vim, you may use a different colour scheme. Once you enter into vim; in the escape mode try this: :colorscheme desert . 'desert' is just an example. You may google to see the different color scheme options available.

Found how to change color scheme using the colors command. So just need some tips on setting LS_COLORS the quickest way possible. Thanks

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Hi,

unalias works. Found one where you can specify a highlight/reverse kind of thingy so playing around with that one for the time being.

For vim/vi, is there anyway I can put the color scheme that I want to use in some type of scripts that I can run manually when I login to the server? I can't change the .profile or .bashrc file because this file is shared amongst the other users who also login to the same server and my team leader doesn't like anyone changing these files.

So what am looking for is after I login, I run another script manually that sort of configure the vim and ls_colors settings that I am wanting to use.

Any tips much appreciated. Thanks.
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