Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:13:34 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ls and color Message-ID: <20031208101334.GB56165@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031207113807.609850b7.end@endif.cjb.net> References: <3FD0CCB5.1000501@magidesign.com> <00fb01c3bb5d$ee483c90$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <3FD0DFAB.5060904@daleco.biz> <20031207113807.609850b7.end@endif.cjb.net>
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:38:07AM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote:
> However, ls does have to lookup how to display the color. The 'xterm'
> terminal name in 4.x does not have color, so you have to tell xterm use
> 'xterm-color', which does have it. This amounts to doing something
> like "xterm -tn xterm-color". (I've been using 5.1 lately, so if this was
> MFC'd recently I wouldn't really know)
The xterm terminal type is now identical to xterm-color and has been
since April, including on the RELENG_4 branch.
If you're running 4.8-STABLE or one of the releases from before that
date, you can use this setting in your .Xdefaults to change the
terminal type to xterm-color by default:
xterm*termName: xterm-color
but you should make sure that you run something like:
[ -f ${HOME}/.Xdefaults ] && /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefau=
lts
in your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc
Cheers,
Matthew
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