Putty blue is too dark to see

knock knock knocking on heaven's door...

we have 2 files: /etc/DIR_COLORS /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm TERM envvar should be "linux" echo $TERM xterm mkdir ~/.dircolors cp /etc/DIR_COLORS $HOME/.dircolors this was quite useless, it simply put me in a b/w mode. https://www.linux.com/community/blogs/127-personal/26944
Category: Window > Colours and select ANSI Blue in the Select a colour to adjust to Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255. I do the same for ANSI Blue Bold to Red:140 Green:140 Blue:255

This sort of works.