Color Gone in PuTTY

seattleweb · 09-22-2007, 02:00 PM

I have a small problem: after updating Ubuntu, when I PuTTY into the machine, my colors have disappeared (i.e. red for gzip, green for scripts, blue for directories)... instead now, I have only Black/White.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? (Google has not been my friend on the issue)

otoomet · 09-22-2007, 02:14 PM

Do you have colors when using an xterm on console?

I suggest the reason is the following: the colors are not directly related to putty but to the 'ls' command. Try 'ls --color=auto' at putty. If this works, add the lines like

Code:

    alias ll='ls -l --color=auto'
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

to your .bashrc file

Best,
Ott

seattleweb · 09-22-2007, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by otoomet

Do you have colors when using an xterm on console?

I suggest the reason is the following: the colors are not directly related to putty but to the 'ls' command. Try 'ls --color=auto' at putty. If this works, add the lines like

Code:

    alias ll='ls -l --color=auto'
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

to your .bashrc file

Best,
Ott

Thank you.. that worked! Unfortunately my gzip files are still white and not red