Man page colors
 

Hi everyone,

I am having problems with MAN : the output is formatted in very weird colors that prove unreadable on my background color.

I could change the background but it would just be simpler if I could specify no coloring whatsoever (say all in White)...

I do not have a .Xdefaults in my $HOME so it is not that...

Any other idea?

Thanks

Check your $PAGER. You might have something specified which utilizes colors.
Change to something simple in ~/.bash_profile, like:

Hey!

Thanks for the answer but no, $PAGER is empty...

I still don't see why the blue colors for the titles in 'man ls' ...

*edited* Apologies for posting the same thread in the RedHat forum, I only realized I should post it there since it might be Distro-related but then I didnt know how to delete the current post. Anyway, my apologies.

no one else? :)

Did you try SETTING it? :)

If it's empty the following applies

Cheers,
Tink

I tried exporting it like apeekaboo suggested, but the -R option doesnt work...
so:

export PAGER='less'

and then calling : "man -P $PAGER ls " does use less as a pager but it doesnt solve MY problem which had to deal with the actually colors with which MAN displays the content of any manpage..

It's not the formatting of the page, it's the colors on it ! :)