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Bill Weissborn
Bill Weissborn

Reputation: 81

How to change powershell terminal color(s) or completely turn off the color coding

My eyes have a hard-time seeing the rainbow of colors that powershell uses. I need to somehow get a powershell terminal window to display everything (aka, error messages, syntax, output, etc.) with black text on a white background. AND I need to have this happen in an Azure Cloud Shell and "stick" (meaning if I exit the cloud-shell and come back into it, the terminal window is automagically setup correctly).

Is this doable? Can someone point me to a script or the correct commands to do this? OR maybe point me to some accessibility setting?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4082

Answers (3)

user3509406
user3509406

Reputation: 409

Another option is to change the application program theme of appearance into Bright mode. Then I can see black color text and white color background.

Upvotes: 0

agrandised
agrandised

Reputation: 1

OP asked for Black & White, not other colors for errors.

Here you are :

## NO colored syntax thank you.

$console = $host.ui.rawui
$console.backgroundcolor = "black"
$console.foregroundcolor = "white"
$colors = $host.privatedata
$colors.verbosebackgroundcolor = "Black"
$colors.verboseforegroundcolor = "White"
$colors.warningbackgroundcolor = "Black"
$colors.warningforegroundcolor = "White"
$colors.Errorbackgroundcolor = "Black"
$colors.Errorforegroundcolor = "White"
set-location C:\
clear-host

Upvotes: 0

Ben R
Ben R

Reputation: 69

First you need a profile to edit:

if ($false -eq (Test-Path $profile)){New-Item $profile -type file}

next you can open it in notepad

& notepad $profile

or vscode

& code $profile

and save the following as your profile:

$console = $host.ui.rawui
$console.backgroundcolor = "black"
$console.foregroundcolor = "white"
$colors = $host.privatedata
$colors.verbosebackgroundcolor = "Black"
$colors.verboseforegroundcolor = "Green"
$colors.warningbackgroundcolor = "Red"
$colors.warningforegroundcolor = "white"
$colors.ErrorBackgroundColor = "Yellow"
$colors.ErrorForegroundColor = "Red"
set-location C:\
clear-host

Upvotes: 0

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