From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 10:11: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FE637BF35 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e6JHAs911032 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:10:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id TAA18602 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:10:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00525 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:30:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michel) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:30:03 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719143003.A453@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000718170420.A97601@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000718175525.A10074@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000718175525.A10074@manatee.mammalia.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:55:25PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:04:20PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > The thing that really bugs me about ls is the lack of bright colors like you > get with gnuls. The blue is so dark it blends in with the black background > of the console. I spent several hours looking through the code to see if I > could change that, but alas I did not understand it :-(. > And, sorry to rant, but the default colors are horrid, too! Do 'ls -G /dev' > to see what I mean. AAaaarh! > Programs like mutt, tin etc. use ansi colors. You can change the corresponding colors in .Xdefaults or similar. For example i have: XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\ F2: set-scrollbar(toggle)\n\ Prior: scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n\ Next: scroll-forw(1,halfpage) XTerm*VT100*colorMode: on XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on XTerm*VT100*colorBD: blue XTerm*VT100*colorULMode: on XTerm*VT100*colorUL: magenta XTerm*VT100*color2: black XTerm*VT100*color3: magenta XTerm.VT100.eightBitInput: true XTerm.VT100.eightBitOutput: true XTerm.VT100*underLine: false XTerm.VT100*cursorColor: lime green XTerm*VT100*saveLines: 400 XTerm*termName: xterm-color XTerm*loginShell: true because i was not able to read yellow color on my laptop. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message