Is there a method to disable the pwsh color setting?

[chenyj796]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I use xshell and always set the background to white.
When I start pwsh on Linux, the command forecolor is yellow which is very illegible.
How can I disable the color setting of pwsh?

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

[iSazonov]

You could temporary set colors with $host.ui.RawUI

[vexx32]

Either that or Set-PSReadLineOption can set the color values used; you can recolor them to something more readable for you or just set any annoying colors back to grey/black.

You can put lines in your $profile script to set these values semi-persistently.

[lzybkr]

Ideally a light background can be detected automatically and colors adjusted automatically. See PowerShell/PSReadLine#464 for more info.

[chenyj796]

@vexx32 Thanks.

The Set-PSReadLineOption works.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

How, exactly, did you manage to disable all colour for PowerShell? I have the colours of my terminal configured so that they are solely black-and-white, but this causes:

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.2.6 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA ATI HDMI                                                                                                                  F1:  Help               │
│ Chip: ATI R6xx HDMI                                                                                                                 F2:  System information │
│ View: F3: Playback  F4: Capture  F5:[All]                                                                                           F6:  Select sound card  │
│ Item: S/PDIF                                                                                                                        Esc: Exit               │
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...which is the consequence of invocation of "alsamixer -c0 --view=All", to be illegible to me, because it becomes:

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.2.6 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA ATI HDMI                                                                                                                  F1:  Help               │
│ Chip: ATI R6xx HDMI                                                                                                                 F2:  System information │
│ View: F3: Playback  F4: Capture  F5:[All]                                                                                           F6:  Select sound card  │
│ Item: S/PDIF                                                                                                                        Esc: Exit               │
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

"TERM=xterm-mono" and "unset LS-COLORS" via http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git remediates this problem, but PowerShell does not accept this instruction.