My Linux terminal color scheme

This is a tutorial on how to enable colors for your terminal output in Arch Linux. In particular, in your Bash environment, in your pacman package manager, and for your nano text editor.

1. Enable colors in Bash.

Backu up the settings:

Move these files to the following places:
sudo mv DIR_COLORS /etc/
mv .bashrc ~/

2. Colorful output in pacman.

And uncomment the word color in that file:

3. Syntaxt highlighting in nano.

Backup you nano config files:
cp ~/.nanorc ~/.nanorc .backup

Edit either ~/.nanorc or /etc/nanorc. Add the following line at the end of the file:
include "/usr/share/nano/*.nanorc"

Please, let me know if you know more terminal color settings. Maybe I missed something.
Thank you for watching.

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[philipwalters]

As always - bloody brilliant - thank you - I wish there were more like you, doing what you do

[dipi]

SuSE does a pretty good job of making just about everything in the terminal more colorful. Using vim, »set nocompatible«, »set background=dark« and »syntax on« are within the first lines of my vimrc file (followed by many »hi« directives, e.g. for line numbering, status-bar colors and all kinds of diff-view colors). Using Ruby’s »irb« REPL (read-eval-print loop), »require 'wirble'« in the irbrc file enables me to have colored output even when I’m just trying out some interactive Ruby constructs. Finally, ncurses is quite handy to make the output of my own Ruby scripts (and C console programs) more colorful. Cheers!

[abhisheksinha]

Thank you so much this helped me to colorise my manjaro minimal on rspi 4b
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[georgei]

Sweet thanks a ton! Now my terminal isn't boring to look at.

[javiporras]

I did the bash only and worked perfectly, thank you!

[Astra]

holly marvellous ! appreciate your work thanks a lot.

[lesliechiang]

Thanks, mate! I been wanting to change but didn't really have time to dig into the code to make the change but I found yours and they serve as a good start which I can modify later. Cheers, mate!

[marcvandeplassche]

As always, you make great video ! Thank you so much

[limitless]

Thanks :)
I had to restet my terminal / bash with [ rm -i ~/.profile ~/bash* ], i messed around some stuff ... with bash scripts
And your quick tutorial broaght some color and life back to my dull black and white Terminal
Thank You Very very much :) :) :)

[donvittoriodimaggio]

ALL worked very well .. I was just little confused about the 3rd file ".bashrc" couldn't see ".bashrc" in the zip file. however when I run cmd "mv .bashrc ~/.bashrc" it did actually moved it.

[AugustoWeber]

Very good video! It helps me a lot.
Could you make a video teaching how to install and enable the zsh as the arch installation tty. I love use the arrows to select the correct file or command. Or a video showing the terminal media players.

[RoTTeNasdf]

Nice tips! Now I can edit scripts descently on nano...greetings.

[robert_wigh]

As always, great video! Thank you very much for the help! The same default grey "colour"scheme goes for the MATE and lxde desktops for default too, regardless of what distro they are implemented in (I think), and for XFCE in some distros, so I bet this will be useful for not only Arch users, but also for Ubuntu MATE and Lubuntu users and such. I love this kind of videos where you show us everyday Linux users how to greatly improve our performance and comfortableness at our computers. Дуже дякую, брате! :)

By the way, could you perhaps do a videos on conkies sometime in the future? I think it would be a great topic. I think they are quite useful if you just quickly want to check how much RAM you're using, how your CPU is going etc.

[morenteria]

Thanks again for the video! Question...
Why am I getting this ?...
mv: cannot stat 'bash.bashrc': No such file or directory
bash: cd: Public/bash-files/: No such file or directory

[sakshamray]

100th comment congratulations you made a century

[AlgentAlbrahimi]

Thank you. I was searching to do this.

[mdtaylor]

You just earned a new subscriber and I love the way you teach. I'm new to Linux and just started with Ubuntu 19.04 . For some reason my terminal shows the font letters smashed together. Any idea how to change the font in terminal? Thanks for everything.

[loyalty_cham]

Thanks a lot my tycoon! Any tips on how to increase Arch performance?

[LundMr]

I have only been a linux user for a few months and have a great deal of experience with changing the colors. However, before changing the colors I have no clue about how it will affect my applications. Across vim, terminal, htop, mutt, cmus wifi-menu and so on, it's impossible to foresee what it will change into. It seems like it is an everlasting battle against the colors :) It would be nice If there was somewhere where I could read with applications use eg "blue" and where they use it. It would appear that the color yellow is used differently across applications. It just weirds me out :) Still I like messing with it to give Arch Linux a little life.

[loyalty_cham]

Hi man when will you do some videos on linux system administrator