From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 07:54:13 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 54E4416A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B26A43FF2 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@[206.26.199.146]) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3291C34DC; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:54:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:54:11 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063378451 X-Sasl-enc: CSI09rLVyuJLjLtkhzS+BQ Received: from [206.26.199.146] (unknown [206.26.199.146]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0C91C317E; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by [206.26.199.146] with local (Exim 4.12) id 19xjh2-0000B3-00; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 +0000 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Gerald S Stoller Message-ID: <20030912085416.GA648@npkfbsd> Mail-Followup-To: Gerald S Stoller , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, gs_stoller@hotmail.com References: <20030911.231654.-26119.1.GS_Stoller@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jRHKVT23PllUwdXP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911.231654.-26119.1.GS_Stoller@juno.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Nathan Kinkade cc: gs_stoller@hotmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color in Xwindows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nkinkade@fastmail.fm List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:54:13 -0000 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >=20 > I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using= =20 > Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the manual > page of the ls command (search in there for the string "COLOR". I > picked a window and in it set TERM to xterm-color and exported it, > set CLICOLOR to a nonnull value and exported it, set LSCOLORS to the > default value mentioned there and exported it. Did an ls -l but it > showed up as usual. Then tried changing TERM to cons25 (also > mentioned in the man page) and exported it. Still nothing. > Can anyone direct me to documentation that will tell me how to > insert color in messages, both the fone and the backgroun, or write to me > how to do it? Thanks in advance. Try using `ls -G` for color output in ls. If that works, just put an alias in your shells config file. For bash it would look something like: alias ls=3D'ls -G' don't know about other shells, though. Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YYm4O0ZIEthSfkkRAkoBAKCEJw1g+P2n2Menki0qYCdFVXYEwwCfUAcZ lIbL6LUdQsyZ+UtMnRQjVmA= =36st -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--