I'm loggin into the same machine but the CLI looks different in all interfaces, some are almost unusable because of color schemes. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on VMware player & vShere client and accessing it via puTTy.



I like the display on the image to the right and I'd like to know if I can standardize that in PuTTY and on the other display consoles.

One of the places where the ls color scheme is set is in the bashrc. There is a system wide bashrc in /etc/bash.bashrc. It is also possible to override the system wide bash defaults for an individual user in a bashrc located at /home/user/bashrc.

In the first picture you are logged in as root@uvm. In the second and third windows the login ID is not shown. If the three windows are of three different login IDs then the solution is to edit the various bashrc files to set all of the users to the same color scheme.

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Steve Stites

They are all from the same install CD and same setup. The only difference is one is running on ESXi the other is on my desktop running in VMware player. there should be nothing different between the systems which is why I found the font and color scheme difference odd. They all have been updated and upgraded to the most current version of ubuntu.

What user name are you logged in under in each of the three examples?

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Steve Stites

What is the value of $TERM in each case?