[SOLVED] xfce terminal colors

l0rddarkf0rce · 11-23-2013, 05:57 PM

New to xfce and have a quick question... When I open a Terminal window the terminal is in black and white, but if I su to root all of the files and directories display in the proper colors. Which file controls which colors are used in the xfce terminal? TIA

maciuszek · 11-23-2013, 06:30 PM

Have your desired shells init script run the profile.d/* scripts. look how /etc/profile does it

perbh · 11-23-2013, 10:55 PM

.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc

alternatively, just open a terminal and do: edit->preferences

GazL · 11-24-2013, 05:12 AM

Add an alias to your ~/.bashrc
I use this:
alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first'

The ansi colour codes used for each type of file are set by the LS_COLORS environment variable (read up on 'dircolors' for details).

What those colours actually look like on screen will be down to whatever palette is set in the settings of your terminal program.

l0rddarkf0rce · 11-24-2013, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL

Add an alias to your ~/.bashrc
I use this:
alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first'

The ansi colour codes used for each type of file are set by the LS_COLORS environment variable (read up on 'dircolors' for details).

What those colours actually look like on screen will be down to whatever palette is set in the settings of your terminal program.

Thanks GazL this is what I actually did. What is strange is that ls works just fine if I am not running X or if I am using KDE, this only happens when I run xfce, also if I su to root after I start terminal ls works just fine as root. In any case this seems to had work so I will be happy.

GazL · 11-24-2013, 02:44 PM

Yes, that's normal. Depending on what starts it bash will start as either a normal shell or a "login shell". Only the login shell runs /etc/profile. There have been a number of threads about this in the past so I won't go over old ground again here, but if you want to search the forum for them you'll find several discussions about it.

chemfire · 11-24-2013, 04:50 PM

Go to preferences in XFCE Terminal; Check "Run Command as Login Shell"

GazL · 11-25-2013, 05:07 AM

... which is the quick and dirty, but wrong way to fix it.