# Changing color of stacktrace info in REPL?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** repl, colors
**Created:** [July 26, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075 "2017-07-26T17:44:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/1 "2017-07-26T17:44:13Z")
For some reason my stacktrace info is being output as white text, which is a problem since I use a near-white background for my REPL. I’ve tried setting `JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR` and `JULIA_STACKFRAME_LINEINFO_COLOR` to no effect. What’s the correct way to change the color of the stacktrace output?
(Note: this is bash on windows.)
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/2 "2017-07-26T21:51:35Z")
> [@anon94023334](#):
>
> I’ve tried setting JULIA\_STACKFRAME\_FUNCTION\_COLOR and JULIA\_STACKFRAME\_LINEINFO\_COLOR to no effect.
As in `ENV["JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR"] = :blue`.?
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/3 "2017-07-26T22:10:41Z")
I tried both the color symbols and the escape codes.
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/4 "2017-07-26T22:12:34Z")
What does `Base.stackframe_function_color()` say?
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/5 "2017-07-26T22:13:49Z")
Unfortunately I won’t be able to tell until next week.
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/6 "2017-08-02T22:57:42Z")
```julia
julia> Base.stackframe_function_color()
:bold
```
I ran
```julia
export JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR=:blue
./julia
```
and in the REPL, I see
```julia
julia> ENV
Base.EnvHash with 18 entries:
"SHELL" => "/bin/bash"
"TERM" => "xterm"
"JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR" => ":blue"
"OLDPWD" => "/home/seth"
"USER" => "seth"
"NAME" => "GS"
"LS_COLORS" => "rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:s…
"HOSTTYPE" => "x86_64"
"PATH" => "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local…
"PWD" => "/home/seth/dev/julia"
"LANG" => "en_US.UTF-8"
"SHLVL" => "1"
"HOME" => "/home/seth"
"LOGNAME" => "seth"
"LESSOPEN" => "| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s"
"LESSCLOSE" => "/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s"
"_" => "./julia"
"OPENBLAS_MAIN_FREE" => "1"
julia> Base.stackframe_function_color()
:bold
```
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/7 "2017-08-02T22:59:08Z")
Should be `export JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR=blue`
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/8 "2017-08-02T23:01:44Z")
Ah, that works. It still doesn’t change other things (the repl help is mainly bright white, which is difficult to read on a `0xddddd` background).
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/9 "2017-08-02T23:04:38Z")
No, it changes the JULIA\_STACKFRAME\_FUNCTION\_COLOR only.
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/10 "2017-08-02T23:11:52Z")
Understood - but I meant `JULIA_HELP_COLOR` - it doesn’t change the help text.
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### Author:  [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-color-of-stacktrace-info-in-repl/5075/11 "2020-11-23T13:50:26Z")
Sorry for entering this thread, but I have similar issue in my Linux shell with solarized scheme on 1.6.0-DEV
I’ve tried different values for `JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR` to no avail.