From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 04:47:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF63E37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc4-cmbg1-4-cust87.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [80.6.127.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E73E43F75 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19aDQE-0000KX-9s for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:47:42 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:47:42 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030709114742.GD693@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030709074033.A1402@sillyrabbi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030709074033.A1402@sillyrabbi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: colour in the console and xterms X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:47:44 -0000 --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:40:33AM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: > I am trying to migrate to FreeBSD from Linux, but some things just > aren't working the way I'd like. >=20 > When I launch an xterm it honours my .bashrc, and I get my custom prompt, > which includes colour, but no other colour seems to work - not vim, not > ls -G, not mutt. >=20 > In the console, however, I never get the prompt or the aliases specified > in my .bashrc, and I never get colour. Any pointers? Thanks. Make a ~/.Xdefaults file, that contains at least this: XTerm*termName: xterm-color You can also customise geometry, background and foreground colour, scrollbar, etc. Check out man xterm for the gory details. HTH Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/DADehvzwOpChvo8RAlvnAKDMIrLTBO18/WjWWddv4ZuUJTV5CQCfbO00 6hm7fOdwDO15dHOQL7ZNLX8= =SH6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T--