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preserving konsole colours

When i boot my copy of slackware, at the login screen (terminal) after i logged in, the terminal displays color for special stuff like ls folder (executable files (green), tarballs (red) etc). but when i am in x windows and opened a konsole window, ls gave me only black colours (not that i have set the theme - in vi/vim it still displays the color but not in console) why is that? and my vim does not show some of it properly ( it did before, for c codes, syntax highlighting ) anyone know how i can fix that?

(i installed kde 3.1.2 over 3.0 and that is the result.. it also changed my bash to bash-2.05b from [root@darkstar], which i wish i can restore too...) anyone know how? thanks in advance :)

Your "bash" prompt can be set by using PS1 settings (do a search on that, I'm not too familiar since I'm not concerned with that feature) in your /etc/profile. This is also the area where you might wanna place the aliases below...

To get colors, I suggest aliasing ls to ls --color. I prefer to use ~/.bashrc but you can set them in /etc/profile for system wide changes (which on a single user system you might want so root has the changes too). See man alias, but here's an example:

Code:

alias 1394='/sbin/modprobe ohci1394 && /sbin/modprobe raw1394'

alias firewire='/sbin/modprobe ohci1394 && /sbin/modprobe raw1394'

alias ls='ls --color'

alias ll='ls -l --color'

alias la='ls -a --color'

alias lal='ls -al --color'

alias copycd='dd if=/dev/cdrom conv=noerror | cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=48 -v -eject -'

HTH

Cool

wow, thanks a lot MasterC, i got it right now :D

Code:

lsmod > modules_loaded.txt



hostname -v kazslack

export HOSTNAME

unset PS1

PS1="[\t] \u@\h:\w/> "

export PS1

alias ls='ls --color'

that's mine :D