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My zshell command line prompt has become almost invisible, I don't know how or why, but now it's white on a very pale grey background. Can someone please give me a command, preferably a short one, that I can copy and paste on to the line so that it becomes visible? My own attempts at typing an escape sequence, to change the colour, always fail because I cannot properly see what I am typing, nor can I read the error messages that result from that.

I have tried this command:

export PS1=$'%{$fg[blue]%}${PWD/#$HOME/~}%{$reset_color%} %{$fg[red]%}→%{$reset_color%}

From this question on this site, by copy and paste, but it made no difference, as far as I can see, although what arrived on my terminal may not be exactly what is in that reference.

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Harry Weston
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The answer turns out to be trivial: this is my experience.

The top line of the terminal window has an Edit option, which brings up a short menu, and selecting the Profile preferences option opens up another window with several tabs. Use the Colours tab to select the theme you want. The setting is preserved through re-starting the computer.

Perhaps I should have looked further into this before posting my question, but I hope this is useful to someone else in the same predicament.

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