Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 +0000 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@fastmail.fm> To: Gerald S Stoller <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color in Xwindows Message-ID: <20030912085416.GA648@npkfbsd> In-Reply-To: <20030911.231654.-26119.1.GS_Stoller@juno.com> References: <20030911.231654.-26119.1.GS_Stoller@juno.com>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >=20 > I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using= =20 > Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the manual > page of the ls command (search in there for the string "COLOR". I > picked a window and in it set TERM to xterm-color and exported it, > set CLICOLOR to a nonnull value and exported it, set LSCOLORS to the > default value mentioned there and exported it. Did an ls -l but it > showed up as usual. Then tried changing TERM to cons25 (also > mentioned in the man page) and exported it. Still nothing. > Can anyone direct me to documentation that will tell me how to > insert color in messages, both the fone and the backgroun, or write to me > how to do it? Thanks in advance. Try using `ls -G` for color output in ls. If that works, just put an alias in your shells config file. For bash it would look something like: alias ls=3D'ls -G' don't know about other shells, though. Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YYm4O0ZIEthSfkkRAkoBAKCEJw1g+P2n2Menki0qYCdFVXYEwwCfUAcZ lIbL6LUdQsyZ+UtMnRQjVmA= =36st -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--
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