Hello all.

I am using slack10 with blackbox. When I am not in X my terminal displays directories in blue and other files in different colors. When I run X and blackbox, and then open up an xterm it only displays black and white. No color difference in files listed. All files are listed in black, but when I su to root, It uses a color scheme or profile or something like that. I would like to change the profile so that my user also displays files with different colors. I am suer there has to be a profile or something that I cany edit, or copy the root profile. I have read the man page for rxvt which I have been using. (I guess its supposed to be a little faster than xterm) How can I edit the profile for my user.

I would also like rxvt or xterm to open with the above plus a different fg and bg. (something easier on the eyes than black on white...) :-)

If I can I will install aterm or eterm, for the transparency, but I have tried in the past and I could never get it to compile transparency into it. Which do you prefer and why? Aterm or Xterm?

Thanks

peace

Try opening an xterm and type alias ls='ls --color -F' and then do a regular ls command. Chances are you have colors set in your ~/.bashrc but it is not used since the terminal isn't a login shell. Open up ~/.bash_profile (create it if it doesn't exist) and add the following lines:This will make sure your ~/.bashrc is always parsed no matter how you start the shell, and if you have listing colors set in your ~/.bashrc these will be activated when you start an xterm for instance.
An alternative would be simply adding the alias command I used above to your ~/.bash_profile.


Håkan

Out-of-the-box, my Slack 10 installation was setting ls_colors from /etc/profile ...


gplacek, I found this post useful for the same problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...74#post1148574

So, created a ~/.bashrc with this line:

alias ls='/usr/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

and got colors everywhere.


My question is: where is LS_OPTIONS being set? I don't see it being set in /etc/profile, and I don't have any of the other rc files which would be run by bash according to the bash manpage.

Skazi,

I created a .bashrc file with the alias line you suggested, and it worked. Just like you said "colors everywhere" :-)

Hw-tph,

I first tried creating a .bashrc file with the code you suggested, however when I did this it did not work. (might have been my fault. (by the way are there any "--> tabs" in your code? I might have typed it wrong. I used a tab in there once. After I created the .bashrc file with your code and tried to open xterm, it gave no $ and closed or killed itself right after I start typing in anything. Puzzling, but if I typed some of your code wrong then that might be the problem.

Thanks for all the help guys... :-)

Well Well Well... I SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE WRONG, Guess it pays to read things twice... HW-tph, I'm sorry It was totally my error. I tried to create a .bashrc, when if fact I should heve been creating a .bash-profile . Well thats what I get for not reading... Ok, I tried your first idea correctly this time but I had no luck, no color. however using your second Idea will most likley work just as well.

thanks

I have to ask the same question as Skazi "where is LS_OPTIONS being set?" Also can I add something to my .bashrc about using -fg and -bg colors. I know I will have to tweak it a little bit because some of the colors in the LS_OPTIONS might be hard to see on a black backround.

Once again.. You have all been LOADS of help... Thanks millions

man ls shows this...........the man pages are your friend...............