Linux Subsystem Text Colors

Sep 30, 2017

Directory colors are not easily readable with bash. This registry change will modify the terminal colors to the default xterm colors. Thanks to the user tobia on Github. This issue was really annoying!

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
;                    00BBGGRR, not RGB!
"ColorTable00"=dword:00000000 ;  0 - black
"ColorTable04"=dword:000000CD ;  1 - dark red
"ColorTable02"=dword:0000CD00 ;  2 - dark green
"ColorTable06"=dword:0000CDCD ;  3 - dark yellow
"ColorTable01"=dword:00EE0000 ;  4 - dark blue
"ColorTable05"=dword:00CD00CD ;  5 - dark magenta
"ColorTable03"=dword:00CDCD00 ;  6 - dark cyan
"ColorTable07"=dword:00E5E5E5 ;  7 - light gray
"ColorTable08"=dword:007F7F7F ;  8 - dark gray
"ColorTable12"=dword:000000FF ;  9 - red
"ColorTable10"=dword:0000FF00 ; 10 - green
"ColorTable14"=dword:0000FFFF ; 11 - yellow
"ColorTable09"=dword:00FF5C5C ; 12 - blue
"ColorTable13"=dword:00FF00FF ; 13 - magenta
"ColorTable11"=dword:00FFFF00 ; 14 - cyan
"ColorTable15"=dword:00ffffff ; 15 - white

• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7556#issuecomment-309307794

This appears to have been fixed recently. I reinstalled Windows and grabbed Ubuntu from the Windows Store and the colors are much better.

windows Related

• Building Static OpenSSL on Windows

  Apr 1, 2021

• Clean Windows Caches

  Oct 9, 2018

• Clear Partition Table in Windows

  Sep 17, 2017

• Dual SHA-1/SHA-256 Authenticode Signing

  May 13, 2017

Comments