Terminal on Ubuntu Server 24.04 via PuTTY - where to change text colors?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2025-10-17 at 09:57 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I have long wondered about the display of file lists (ls -la) where
> certain files get text colors depending on their extension...

Maybe an alias on the Linux machine adds the ls --color option?

> And if I use nano to edit a script file it shows different colors if
> the file is set to be executable or not...

I'm using ~/.nanorc for syntax highlighting, maybe there's an entry in
/etc/nanorc on the Linux machine.

I don't use putty, a quick search showed
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PuTTY#Configuration .