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Dracula Pro, dircolors and Fedora35

Published: Thu 24 March 2022
By Neill Cox

In Technical.

tags: Technical FIXME

I recently bought Dracula Pro and installed the gnome-terminal theme on my F35 laptop. Everytime I opened a new terminal I would get the error /usr/bin/cat: /home/ncox/.dir_colors: Is a directory

It looks like this theme is tested against Ubuntu rather than Fedora/CentOS/RHEL.

Fedora expects ~/.dir_colors to be a file not a directory.

My bodgy fix was:

mv ~/.dir_colors ~/.dir_colors_NOT
mv ~/.dir_colors_NOT/dircolors ~/.dir_colors

No more error message, but I feel like I'm papering over a bug.

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