The Pink Themed Micro Journal Rev.2

I wasn't lying when I said Green is my comfort color

but Pink is my ultimate favorite color. 

I really like my Micro Journal Rev.2, it looks amazing right? The color is called Jurassic Park, because it is green and beige.  It is very retro, and since it has Debian arm linux, it doesn't have a desktop view like windows or mac, instead, it use ranger's dashboard.  Forgive me if I am using the wrong terminologies or words. 

The default dashboard of rev.2
picture is from Micro Journal quick start guide by Un Kyu Lee

I lived long enough, I experienced DOS.  The ranger on rev.2 gave me a feeling of nostalgia, with the green and blue text on black background.  I like that, but can I get pink text?

I have no programming skill, I don't understand linux and if I don't have to I would like to stay away from "terminal", but theoretically I can change the text color right?  But I don't know how.

Then one day in writerdeck's reddit, u/TheOriginalBeefus shared a tutorial to change the text color on microjournal.  YES, I missed that tutorial. How could I?

For the sake of the pink text that I've been dreaming of, I finally step into the unknown...

So here is how TheOriginalBeefus tips to change the text color.

or read it on reddit

Again, I like green but what about pink.

Logically, I just need to change "green" to "pink" right?

But no. By default, the only available color in Debian Linux is green, yellow, magenta, white, black, red, blue and cyan.  If your favorite color is among the default 8 colors, consider yourself lucky.

For me, the magenta is okay but... I WANT PINK, not purple.

So I ask my friend, Gemini, The AI.  Gemini has various solutions to the problem but in order to get the right solution I had some trial and errors.  I reflashed the SD card few times.  I sacrificed my miyoo mini's SD card as a backup.

and here's how I get the pink text.

PINK TEXT TUTORIAL LEVEL I

1.  type "Q" to drop out of the ranger

2.  type "sudo nano ~/.bashrc"  to open that .bashrc file with nano editor

3.  go to the bottom line of the file and type everything down:

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then

    # 1. Define the Colors (Magenta -> Hot Pink)

    printf '\033]P5FF69B4'

    printf '\033]PDFFB6C1'

    # 2. Set the Default Text to that Pink

    setterm -foreground magenta -store

    # 3. Force 'ls' to use Pink for folders

    export LS_COLORS="di=1;35:fi=0;37:ln=1;36"

    # 4. Fix the 'clear' command so it doesn't reset colors

    alias clear='clear; printf "\033]P5FF69B4\033]PDFFB6C1"'

fi

4.  then press ctrl+O to overwrite the file, press Y to confirm and ctrl+x to exit.

you are back in ranger!!!  type q to get out,

then type "chmod +x ~/.bashrc" 

you may need to shut down and restart to see the change.

what? nothing changed?  try to type q,  do you see a pink letter there?  go type "clear" and then type "ranger" again.  some texts are now in pink.

Every time the text color turn magenta or any other color, just try typing "clear".

* sorry I forgot to take picture of the micro journal on pink level 1

Now... you don't need to continue to level 2 if you already happy with that.   Level 2 is for changing the ranger's colorscheme to make it monotones.  You may noticed with the pink text tutorial level 1, only few text in pink, the other text are green or blue.  It depends on your preference, the color difference might come handy to check typos when writing script/ code, but since I don't do programming or coding or whatever, I want only pink text with darker and lighter shade. It looks more pleasing and harmonious to my eyes.

By default the ranger are using "default" color scheme.  There are actually other color schemes: jungle (if you like green?), snow (white and darker white, and darkest white, well basically monotones), and solarized (very popping color like red, yellow).  Using default is fine and recommended if you need color variations, to check typos when editing script, but if you are using micro journal only to write, snow can give you a more elegance look.

This is how the "snow" color scheme looks like

PINK TEXT TUTORIAL LEVEL II

so here's what I did:

1. the ranger colorscheme is in the configuration files so you need to create it first by press q and then type:

"ranger --copy-config=all"

then it will make that file that you need.  You are looking for the rc.conf file.

2. type:

"sudo nano /home/microjournal/.config/ranger/rc.conf"

it will open that file in nano editor

3.  Now, scroll down and find the text "set colorcheme default"

replace "default" with "snow" (or "jungle" or "solarized")

overrwrite the file by pressing ctrl+O, Y, and exit with ctrl+X

now restart the ranger (or the microjournal).  if the ranger dashbord text are all in white then you did right.  to make it pink just type q and "clear"

Pink Level 1 and Level 2 applied. SO VERY PINK :D

if you are opening any .sh file through ranger, the pink would go back to being magenta.  if that happens, just go back to dashboard, type q and type "clear" again to revert back to pink.  

Okay, that's all.

I think the snow colorscheme also looks good in another color, all you need to do is doing the level 1 tutorial but with different color code. 

Again, this is the solution I learned from Gemini AI, maybe there is more easier or safer solution. If you happen to know, just let me know :)