Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:10:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.10.10007181706300.15130-100000@gloria.cord.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > > > With the change to ls having the 'G' switch addded is there a way to get > > > it to show colors in other than cons25. I read the man page and it is > > > not clear on this. > > > > Use a termcap that supports colours. > > For example, "xterm-color" in an xterm. > > Does anyone know why XFree86's xterm, as shipped, doesn't set > TERM to xterm-color? Is it for fear of an xterm-color entry > not existing (either on the local machine, or machines you > telnet/ssh to from the xterm)? I pretty sure that is the culprit. I know that on a sparc-netbsd machine I login to on a regular basis doesn't have an xterm-color. And I've known friends who've been bitten by this on other Unices. In the end, it's probably better just to modify .Xdefaults to make your xterm "look color" -- Trenton Schulz twschulz@cord.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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