Terminal font and color

berkay · 09-19-2004, 02:57 PM

Hi all, I have two questions...
First how can I give different colors to my terminal fonts? For instance, directories must differ in color so that I can recognize them...
Secondly, how can I change fonts in my terminal? I am using aterm, here is the font line in my .Xdefaults file

Code:

 aterm.font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-ansi

I really do not understand this font thing, what do those numbers 0-0-0 mean and how can I find other fonts to use in my terminal...

Thanks for any help...

Tinkster · 09-19-2004, 03:24 PM

Have a look at

xfontsel

That should give you a fair idea off all those things.

Guelle guelle,
Tink

berkay · 09-20-2004, 02:51 PM

Thanks Tinkster, I emerged xfontsel and understood what they mean... However my main problem is console font colors... By saying font colors, I want directories to be in a different color than files... How can I do this?

Thanks again!

Tinkster · 09-20-2004, 02:58 PM

That's a matter of
ls --color=always
which many a distro will have aliased
for ls ...

To change the actual colours edit
/etc/DIR_COLORS

Cheers,
Tink

berkay · 09-20-2004, 04:23 PM

I wanted to make my directories in another color, so adding

alias dir = 'dir --color'
alias ls='ls --color'

solved what I asked... From what I understood, I can define several functions to some aliases like dir, ls... So how can I shutdown -h now with simply shut (without loggin' as root)?

Thanks again & again

Tinkster · 09-20-2004, 05:44 PM

That's a bit harder than that :)

What I've done is to edit /etc/sudoers

Code:

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias HALT = /sbin/halt
Cmnd_Alias REBOOT = /sbin/reboot
Cmnd_Alias CHKIN = /usr/sbin/checkinstall

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
tink  diggn = NOPASSWD: CHKIN , REBOOT, HALT, /usr/bin/sudo, /usr/sbin/adduser
, /sbin/ifconfig

and then created an alias for that ...

alias halt='sudo /sbin/halt'

Cheers,
Tink

berkay · 09-21-2004, 01:09 PM

Hi Tinkster,

Editing /etc/sudoers helped a lot... Now it works... Thanks again for your help

Tinkster · 09-21-2004, 02:17 PM

Bir, sey degil

alasmaladik :}

Spelling? :)

Cheers,
Tink

berkay · 09-22-2004, 04:36 AM

Birsey degil is right... alasmaladik is how we pronounce it... By the way, where are your from and how do you now Turkish?

Cheers...

Tinkster · 09-22-2004, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by berkay
Birsey degil is right... alasmaladik is how
we pronounce it... By the way, where are
your from and how do you now Turkish?

Cheers...

Living in NZ, German citizen, learnt some words
in Turkish working with Turkish people in Germany :)

Cheers,
Tink

berkay · 09-23-2004, 02:19 AM

Yeah, there are lots of people living in Germany, but I don't know why Germany? (maybe she is a cheap country compared to Turkey

Cheers..

berk

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