changing the color of the file

[vickey_20]

Hey there
I have lot of text file notes on my pc. It's all shattered all over and are not in systematic order and quite troublesome. What I wanna do is when i read a file, I want to change the colour of the file to some distinct colour. Thereby coming to know that i have already read the file. How do I go about it??

[Irithori]

Dont know how one would change the color of files.
What I do know is:
Your files will stay "shattered all over and not in systematic order and quite troublesome",
even if there would be a way in gnome/kde/whatever to do this color thing.

What about this:
Create a directory structure in your home.
media/text/science
media/text/missmarple
media/text/fun
etc
(your milage may vary of course )

Every time you have read one of the files, move it to a appropiate place in this structure.

1) you know what you have already read
2) after reading them all, files are sorted.

[vickey_20]

what i m presently doing is appending read at the end of the file I have read. That does the work but I would like to change the colour to green for the files i have read and red for the files still left to b read. Ya that sounds kind of silly but that's how I want it

[vickey_20]

ok its done now. What i did was made an entry .read in the DIR_COLORS file and gave it an attribute 32 . So now on appending .read to the files I have read and its displayed in green color

[Hal343]

Nice. You're learning so fast that you get a lot of your own problems figured out by yourself. I think you'll be helping more than asking questions real soon.

[vickey_20]

thanks
I m just trying my best