Using a Color Scheme with Putty?

[Jessica]

Has anyone ever used a custom color scheme with putty? I am trying to use Solarized, which I use for my Windows text editor, in Putty and vim. vim is working fine, but in Putty now everything is just the plain grey text, none of the other colors are being used. The background is the correct grey and the text is one of the greys in the scheme, but for example when I do ls -a, EVERYTHING is still grey. Is there a trick to getting it to use different colors for different things?

 

https://github.com/brantb/solarized/tree/master/putty-colors-solarized

 

the .reg file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\****]
"Colour0"="131,148,150"
"Colour1"="147,161,161"
"Colour2"="0,43,54"
"Colour3"="7,54,66"
"Colour4"="0,43,54"
"Colour5"="238,232,213"
"Colour6"="7,54,66"
"Colour7"="0,43,54"
"Colour8"="220,50,47"
"Colour9"="203,75,22"
"Colour10"="133,153,0"
"Colour11"="88,110,117"
"Colour12"="181,137,0"
"Colour13"="101,123,131"
"Colour14"="38,139,210"
"Colour15"="131,148,150"
"Colour16"="211,54,130"
"Colour17"="108,113,196"
"Colour18"="42,161,152"
"Colour19"="147,161,161"
"Colour20"="238,232,213"
"Colour21"="253,246,227"

[scootstah]

If you open Putty and go to Window > Colors, you can see the color options available. I don't know if you already knew that, or if that is helpful to you. It doesn't look like there is much room for customization though.

[Jessica]

When I load the session that I've customized using the .reg file, I see all of the different colors assigned, but the problem is the terminal is only using one of them, not the rest. :/

[Monkuar]

Lol, I hate editing in putty, why not just edit the files through ssh ftp?

 

 

can use notepad++ or whatever, something similiar and easier to read, command prompt editing is insanely OP.

[Jessica]

Is that relevant? Do you even know what PuTTy is used for? Did I say I was having trouble editing files? I specifically said I did an ls -a, which has nothing to do with EDITING files.

 

Did I ask you how I should do my job? Because I'm pretty sure that JUST YESTERDAY my boss advised me as part of a performance review that I should really become more comfortable using the terminal, since I'm the only one in the office who doesn't know the basic commands at the command line or in vi. So I got a crash course on vi. All I want is for the terminal to be colored the way that I like, because I found it easy on my eyes. This wasn't a question asking SHOULD I use Putty. It was how do I make the colors the ones I'm used to.

 

FWIW, I use prefer to use Windows clients like Textpad or jEdit. However, I haven't yet found a SVN or a CVS GUI client which works as easily as running the commands. So I use putty for my cvs/svn commands. We're converting to Git soon too and so I will to use it for that.

[Monkuar]

Yes, Putty is connect to your VPS Via SSH

 

I use a lot it alot to install scripts and such, like lamp scripts, php/mysql/nginx via command prompts

 

i didn't mean to come of as rude, i just thought you was editing stuff via command line, and was wondering why, even you said jedit and stuff you edit with as well, so I apologize

 

i was just trying to strike up a conversation >_<

[Jessica]

This is a thread where I am actively trying to get help with a specific issue. Trying to "strike up a conversation" by saying I shouldn't even do the thing I'm trying to do is pretty rude. Make your own thread if you just want to talk about stuff.

[Adam]

I don't know exactly what that .reg files does to your PuTTy session, but after a quick look on the website I didn't spot any screen shots of ls output. Are you sure it's actually for that? By default I believe the --colour option for ls is disabled. You might want to add an alias in your .bashrc file to ensure it's using them:

 

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

 

You can go a step further and define the colours you want to use yourself (this guy explains how). Although I guess the .reg file could be trying to do that and failing. I'm not sure with PuTTy. We'll see how the alias goes first.

 

i just thought you was editing stuff via command line, and was wondering why

 

I always work within vim. The bog standard set-up isn't great, but the whole purpose of vim is you progressively customise it exactly how you like it. Once you learn the commands and define your own, set-up your colour scheme, add tags, etc. You'd be surprised how fast you can work with it. I've even got a PHP debugger configured so I can step through the code as it executes, add in break points, etc.

[Jessica]

I guess I assumed that it was for that sort of thing - what else would it be for?

Before I ran the .reg file, my ls output was colored, and now it's all the same color.

 

I did the alias and it still is all grey.

 

It's not just ls, it's all commands. Everything is just two colors instead of the multiple colors it was before, or the other colors in the scheme.

[Adam]

Just looked like a vim colour scheme to me, but it's obviously doing something. What's output if you run this in the terminal:

 

echo $LS_COLORS

[Jessica]

They have a separate one for vim which I setup already and it works, this was completely separate. I may be misunderstanding what it does.

no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.svgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:

 

If this isn't meant to do what I thought I guess I need to figure out how to reverse it, because I definitely don't like the all plain grey :-P

 

Creator's website: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

[Jessica]

I'm noticing another grey color...maybe it *is* set up right.

if I don't use the saved session and just log in to the same server, with the Solarized I see two greys. Without it I see green and blue. I guess I want to change which color is used for what.

Edit: for an ls -a command

 

Now to figure out some other commands which I can try to see some varied output lol

[KevinM1]

If there are any other users on the system, you can always finger them (yes, 'finger' is a command).

[Jessica]

I looked at the author's website to figure out which colors are which

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\*****]
"Colour0"="131,148,150" base 0
"Colour1"="147,161,161" base 1
"Colour2"="0,43,54"	base 03
"Colour3"="7,54,66"	base 02
"Colour4"="0,43,54"	base 03
"Colour5"="238,232,213"	base 2
"Colour6"="7,54,66"	base 02
"Colour7"="0,43,54"	base 03
"Colour8"="220,50,47"	red
"Colour9"="203,75,22"	orange
"Colour10"="133,153,0"	green
"Colour11"="88,110,117"	base 01
"Colour12"="181,137,0"	yellow
"Colour13"="101,123,131"base 00
"Colour14"="38,139,210"	blue
"Colour15"="131,148,150"base 0
"Colour16"="211,54,130" magenta
"Colour17"="108,113,196"violet
"Colour18"="42,161,152" cyan
"Colour19"="147,161,161"base 1
"Colour20"="238,232,213"base 2
"Colour21"="253,246,227"base 3

 

Then changed the base colors (greys) to bright colors. I know Colour0 is plain text and colour2 is background so I left them alone. I repeated that until I figured out the settings I liked. The colors for directories  & files in ls (which I kept using to test it) were colour15 and colour11

 

[ninja]

*ninja prefers all black, better to hide in.  But ninja can hide no matter what colors are used.

[Jessica]

yeeeaaaaaahhhh.

[premiso]

I really do not like Putty, I use xShell4 I <3 that!

 

*premiso just likes to troll =\

[scootstah]

since I'm the only one in the office who doesn't know the basic commands at the command line or in vi. So I got a crash course on vi.

 

For the record, you should check out vim. It's like vi, but better.

[Jessica]

We are using vim actually, I just don't know the difference.

[Pikachu2000]

I hear it's been improved . . .

[.josh]

For the record, you should check out vim. It's like vi, but better.

We are using vim actually, I just don't know the difference.

 

well for one thing, it has an "m" on the end.

[scootstah]

We are using vim actually, I just don't know the difference.

 

There's quite a few things that vim improves on. Some of the more prominent ones:

[*]Supports common code editor features like syntax highlighting, code folding and indenting

[*]Supports plugins

[*]Supports editing via SSH

[*]Supports editing files in compressed archives

[Jessica]

I'm getting used to using vim, if it didn't have syntax highlighting, I would not even bother. My coworkers all love vim though, and have covered my whiteboard in vim commands. They even have "the mug of vi" with the commands.

 

When I need to get something done fast I'm still using my windows client but I don't particularly MIND using vim when I have the time to remember the commands.

 

It's like anything else, the more you use it the better you get at it,

[Adam]

Not just the better you get, but the more you begin to customise it. That's the real beauty of vim. They say you should learn/add a new feature every week, and in time you basically build up the perfect IDE for yourself.

 

I find it hard moving to a different editor/IDE though, I'm forever writing ":wq". Even in Word documents.

[.josh]

I use it sometimes but tbh I'm not some diehard fanboy about it like some people seem to be.  I like keyboard commands and shortcut keys to an extent but IMO being able to use a mouse more...like for highlighting shit...rightclick > context menus are a lot better in many cases and I don't get to do that w/ vim :/