Richard Kilgore wrote: > On Apr 30, Jim Smith wrote > >alfred de Groot wrote: > >> > >> Recently I switched from Slackware to Debian. What I miss are the colors > >> wich indicates directorys and other special files. How can I get those > >> colors back? > > > >Try "alias ls=ls -color=auto" in your .bashrc. > > > > You may also need to fiddle with /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm[-color] > to get colors in an xterm. The color assignments are in > XTerm-color, and I've never figured out how this file ever gets > sourced. I always just rename XTerm to XTerm-nocolor, create a > soft link from XTerm to XTerm-color, and change the "#include" > line in XTerm-color to include XTerm-nocolor. Then, I think you > have to invoke the xterm command with the "+cm" options.
Just add *customization: -color in your .Xresources (maybe .Xdefaults) or better add it to system wide /etc/X11/Xresources. Then all app-defaults files ending with -color will be used instead of the standard ones. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .