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   terminal-colors.d    ( 5 )

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DEFAULT SCHEME FILES FORMAT

The following statement is recognized:

name color-sequence

The name is a logical name of color sequence (for example "error"). The names are specific to the utilities. For more details always see the COLORS section in the man page for the utility.

The color-sequence is a color name, ASCII color sequences or escape sequences.

Color names black, blink, blue, bold, brown, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, halfbright, lightblue, lightcyan, lightgray, lightgreen, lightmagenta, lightred, magenta, red, reset, reverse, and yellow.

ANSI color sequences The color sequences are composed of sequences of numbers separated by semicolons. The most common codes are:

┌───┬───────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │0 │ to restore default │ │ │ color │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │1 │ for brighter colors │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │4 │ for underlined text │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │5 │ for flashing text │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │30 │ for black foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │31 │ for red foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │32 │ for green foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │33 │ for yellow (or brown) │ │ │ foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │34 │ for blue foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │35 │ for purple foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │36 │ for cyan foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │37 │ for white (or gray) │ │ │ foreground │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │40 │ for black background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │41 │ for red background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │42 │ for green background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │43 │ for yellow (or brown) │ │ │ background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │44 │ for blue background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │45 │ for purple background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │46 │ for cyan background │ ├───┼───────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │47 │ for white (or gray) │ │ │ background │ └───┴───────────────────────┘

Escape sequences To specify control or blank characters in the color sequences, C-style \-escaped notation can be used:

┌─────┬──────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │\a │ Bell (ASCII 7) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\b │ Backspace (ASCII 8) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\e │ Escape (ASCII 27) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\f │ Form feed (ASCII 12) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\n │ Newline (ASCII 10) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\r │ Carriage Return │ │ │ (ASCII 13) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\t │ Tab (ASCII 9) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\v │ Vertical Tab (ASCII │ │ │ 11) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\? │ Delete (ASCII 127) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\_ │ Space │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\\fP │ Backslash (\) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\^ │ Caret (^) │ ├─────┼──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │\# │ Hash mark (#) │ └─────┴──────────────────────┘

Please note that escapes are necessary to enter a space, backslash, caret, or any control character anywhere in the string, as well as a hash mark as the first character.

For example, to use a red background for alert messages in the output of dmesg(1), use:

echo 'alert 37;41' >> /etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.scheme

Comments Lines where the first non-blank character is a # (hash) are ignored. Any other use of the hash character is not interpreted as introducing a comment.