From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 9:18:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxygen.americanisp.net (oxygen.americanisp.net [208.244.174.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CCA537B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2544 invoked by uid 7860); 15 Nov 2000 18:17:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Nov 2000 18:17:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:17:11 -0700 (MST) From: Peter To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: Mike Galvez , Subject: Re: Color term settings In-Reply-To: <3A12C42A.1FB711D2@mitre.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use term type linux, in both putty and in xterm, seems to work for everything, so far have had nothing break. you can also try TERM type: xterm-color you can check yoour TERM type by: set |grep TERM in putty either configure it to be term by linux/xterm-color or once connected setenv/export TERM=linux **Random Fortune for this instance of pine** The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" --- www.nul.cjb.net --- The Power to Crash! --- www.FreeBSD.org --- The Power to Serve! On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > > > Mike Galvez wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running a 4.0 release of FreeBSD and connecting to the server via ssh > > (PuTTY). My .muttrc has color settings which display fine on the console but > > they don't show up when connecting via PuTTY. I modified .cshrc to use colorls > > from the ports collection. Colorls displays color as expected via PuTTY/ssh. > > Is there a term setting I should add to .login_conf? /etc/ttys? > > You're probably going to have to set your terminal type to one of the > "color > enabled" versions. I used to use xterm-color with puttys xterm mode, > but > some things may break with that setting. > > -- > _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ > / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org > / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those > /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message