Re: litany of small quesitons about afterstep
Andre Oliveira da Costa (costa@bluesplace.niteroi.rio.br)
Sun, 3 May 1998 22:48:04 -0300 (EST)
> I tried ls --color=tty on my xterms, and got color. You might try an
> nxterm instead, or xterm-color, or color-xterm (do a "which xterm" and go
> to that directory, then do a "ls *term*"). If they work, then reconfigure
> wharf to bring these up each time instead of a plain old xterm.
>
> On Sun, 3 May 1998, Timotheus wrote:
> > how can I get my xterm windows to display colors? I have ls aliased to 'ls
> > --color=tty' but in my xterm windows all that is used is bold, no colors.
> >
Which X distribution are you using? I think the XFree86 distributions
prior to version 3.3.x had separate binaries for "mono-xterms" and
"color-xterms", but since then 'plain' xterm has been able to display
directory listings in color. Please note that you still have to alias ls
to "ls --color=tty"; also there are some environment variables that
should be set. Try:
eval `dircolors`
at the shell prompt and see if colors appear when you execute a ls. If
it works, you might consider putting it on your shell's configuration
files (.cshrc for csh or .profile for bash).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa@tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
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