Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:07:34 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing directory listing type Message-ID: <20021126140734.GA53644@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <002301c29552$f4403260$0d0d4ba0@ozguro> References: <005c01c294d2$977fe6e0$0302a8c0@mike> <021701c294d4$c3583270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <002301c29552$f4403260$0d0d4ba0@ozguro>
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:51:43PM +0200, Özgür Özaslan wrote:
> I'm a new FreeBSD user and using FreBSD 4.6.2. I wonder if it is possible to
> colour directories in blue or symbolic links to another like linux systems.
> Now all them are in the same white colour. Is this simple? Thanks...
Simple enough. If you log into the console without using X-windows,
all you need to do is:
ls -G
to see the pretty colours. To save typing, you can alias 'ls' to 'ls
-G' in your shell configuration files:
alias ls ls -G # .tcshrc, .cshrc
or
alias ls='ls -G' # .shrc, .bashrc
If you're using xterm(1) under X-Windows, you need to do the above,
plus you need to tell xterm to use a terminal type that supports
colours. For some reason hidden in the mists of time, the default
'xterm' terminal type under FreeBSD is better known elsewhere as
'xterm-mono', and you have to change to using 'xterm-color' to get the
colourization you want --- this makes quite a difference to several
programs like mutt, emacs, /stand/sysinstall which do full screen
character based stuff. Simply put:
xterm*termName: xterm-color
into your ~/.Xdefaults file, and if necessary add:
[ -f ${HOME}/.Xdefaults ] && /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults
somewhere near the top of your .xsession or .xinitrc file.
Cheers,
Matthew
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