From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 14:36:40 2002 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 0B96237B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from violet.metron.com (indigo.metron.com [192.160.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7568C43E42 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lou@metron.com) Received: from violet.metron.com (violet.metron.com [127.0.0.1]) by violet.metron.com (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g92LaZF6023013 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lou@metron.com)œ Received: (from lou@localhost) by violet.metron.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g92LaZcK023012 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lou@metron.com) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:34 -0700 From: Lou Katz To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm and colors Message-ID: <20021002143633.A22987@metron.com> References: <20020928005410.A37493@insightbb.com> <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain>; from fh31415@gmx.net on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:55:58AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I hate all this color stuff. HOW DO I TURN IT OFF? I am colorblind. On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:55:58AM +0200, Frank Heitmann wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > > > How do i set the colors so when I just use "ls" I get the color > > directories and the rest of colors? I just want the basic colors > > that I can get without having to do alot of configuring. > Have you set your TERM environment variable to 'xterm-color' ? > > The way to do this differs depending on the shell you use, if it's > bash just type: > export TERM=xterm-color > > if it's csh type: > setenv TERM xterm-color > > (There are more shells, look at the man page of your shell for more > details!) > > Hope that helps, > Cheers and Good Morning :) > Frank > > P.S. I have read that in new versions of FreeBSD the TERM variable > is set to xterm-color by default, but I have forgotten if this is > already done in -stable or if this is done in -current - and I > don't know which version of FreeBSD you are running :) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- -=[L]=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message