Purple theme for "Bash On Ubuntu On Windows" for Windows 10

Introduction

You can setup Ubuntu like colors in Windows Subsystem for Linux as this tutorial describes in detail:

Caveat

Don’t use the screenfetch display above, use the modified winscreeny here:

Using this splash screen gives more details than the tutorial’s screen and avoids error messages like it has.

Terminal Background Color Instruction Summary

To summarize the tutorial in the first link you will need to:

• Head to the Ubuntu Website to download the Ubuntu Font for free.
• Install these fonts by clicking the “Install” button in the Windows Font Viewer windows. NOTE: I found the Consola’s font built into Windows the best for me.

• Change the default terminal colors as per table below.

• Slot 1: Red: 78, Green: 154, Blue: 6
• Slot 2: Red: 52, Green: 101, Blue: 164
• Slot 3: Red: 48, Green: 10, Blue: 36
• Slot 4: Red: 6, Green: 152, Blue: 154
• Slot 5: Red: 204, Green: 0, Blue: 0
• Slot 6: Red: 117, Green: 80, Blue: 123
• Slot 7: Red: 196, Green: 160, Blue: 0
• Slot 8: Red: 211, Green: 215, Blue: 207
• Slot 9: Red: 85, Green: 87, Blue: 83
• Slot 10: Red: 114, Green: 159, Blue: 207
• Slot 11: Red: 138, Green: 226, Blue: 52
• Slot 12: Red: 52, Green: 226, Blue: 226
• Slot 13: Red: 239, Green: 41, Blue: 41
• Slot 14: Red: 173, Green: 127, Blue: 168
• Slot 15: Red: 252, Green: 233, Blue: 79
• Slot 16: Red: 238, Green: 238, Blue: 238

As Piotr Bartnicki notes, many people may prefer a lighter blue for directories. If you fall into this camp, put the value for slot 10 in slot 2.