Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:34 -0700 From: Lou Katz <lou@metron.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm and colors Message-ID: <20021002143633.A22987@metron.com> In-Reply-To: <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain>; from fh31415@gmx.net on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:55:58AM %2B0200 References: <20020928005410.A37493@insightbb.com> <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain>
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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
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