From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 7:58:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BF737B424 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cardv@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010427145826.XBER18489.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:58:26 -0700 Received: (from cardv@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f3REu9w01724; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:56:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:56:09 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Alastair Stevens Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X console colours Message-ID: <20010427095609.D1615@marx.alton1.il.home.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alastair Stevens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from ans@vbc.net on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:20:45AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:20:45AM +0100, Alastair Stevens wrote: > I'm using 'bash', and the colors are displayed correctly in my prompt > string. But 'ls' and 'vim' don't show any colors. Clearly, the console is > color-capable, but why only for certain programs, and not others? > > In bare console more, without X, all colors are displayed perfectly. > Anyone got any thoughts? Add the following to your ~/Xdefaults file: xterm*termName: xterm-color HTH, Victor -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message