Problem

The default editor theme for WSL is awful. Every directory name gets highlighted with a funky green highlight that makes it super hard to read what the name of the directory is in the first place. How do I remove that highlighting?

Solution

According to an issue in the vscode repo (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7556), the themes of the WSL command line are settable just as you'd set anything else, via .bashrc.

As such, you can get rid of the highlighting by running these commands in your WSL CLI (as supplied by GitHub user karlti):

LS_COLORS='ow=01;36;40'
export LS_COLORS

Bonus

If you're looking to get your WSL command line to look like that of Ubuntu's, this is a great guide: https://medium.com/@jgarijogarde/make-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-look-like-the-ubuntu-terminal-f7566008c5c2