mandrake 9.0 tty colour

aaronluke · 10-25-2002, 02:56 PM

i just moved to mandrake and i want to know is there a way to change the colour of the font or background of the ttys? i tried setterm -foreground green and it only changes for that line then it goes back to default is it possible in mandrake?

MasterC · 10-25-2002, 03:03 PM

You should check out aliasing ls to ls -l --color or similar

Check the link in my sig on commands and their explainations for more info on actually doing this.

Also might try man alias

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MasterC · 10-25-2002, 03:04 PM

Ok, I quickly browsed it and found it:

Quote:

alias ls="ls --color=tty"
Create an alias for the command "ls" to enhance its format with color. In this example, the alias is also called "ls" and the "color" option is only envoke when the output is done to a terminal (not to files). Put the alias into the file /etc/bashrc if you would like the alias to be always accessible to all users on the system. Type "alias" alone to see the list of aliases on your system.

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