Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:01:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 1 Aug 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> >>>>> "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BN> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> >> When I installed Slackware a year ago ls's output was colored. Is there
> >> a colored version of ls for Debian or is it a switch for ls??
> BN> You can add the following to .bash_profile (or whatever).
> BN> alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> You might also want to set the TERM variable to "xterm-color" if
> you're running Xterm and not Rxvt.
If all above does not work then maybe your problem is with your
Xresources file (/etc/X11/Xresources). Try adding the line below:
*customization: -color
I have tried all of these things and have never been able to get
colorization to work in an xterm.
To confirm this, I just did the following:
1. Added "*customization: -color" to my ".Xresources" and confirmed
that it appeared by running "xrdb -query".
2. Started an xterm, set the TERM variable using
export TERM=xterm-color
then checked it by typing "echo $TERM".
3. Ran "eval `dircolors`".
4. Ran "ls -al --color=auto".
The end result -- which has always happened whenever I've tried this
in the past -- is that certain entries in the ls listing are
highlighted with bold-face text, but none of them appear in color.
Obviously this works for some people. It's _never_ worked for me.
There must be something else going on that no one has mentioned on
this list. Possibly I have some other setting in one of my init files
that prevents it from working, but a casual perusal of the "ls" source
hasn't revealed anything obvious.
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