color in Xwindows

Gerald S Stoller gs_stoller at juno.com
Sun Sep 14 11:09:12 PDT 2003



On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 +0000 Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade at fastmail.fm>
writes:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote:
> > FreeBSD  4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 
> GMT 2001
> >     jkh at narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> > 
> >              I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am 
> using 
> > Xwindows ).  One place where I found mention of color is in the 
> manual
> > page of the  ls  command (search in there for the string "COLOR".  
> I
> > picked a window and in it set  TERM  to  xterm-color  and exported 
> it,
> > set  CLICOLOR  to a nonnull value and exported it, set  LSCOLORS  
> to the
> > default value mentioned there and exported it.  Did an  ls -l  but 
> it
> > showed up as usual.  Then tried changing  TERM  to  cons25  (also
> > mentioned in the man page) and exported it.  Still nothing.
> >            Can anyone direct me to documentation that will tell me 
> how to
> > insert color in messages, both the fone and the backgroun, or 
> write to me
> > how to do it?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Try using `ls -G` for color output in ls.  If that works, just put 
    I tried it, still the same output, no color.
> an alias in your shells config file.  For bash it would look something
> like:
> alias ls='ls -G'
> 
> don't know about other shells, though.
> 
> Nathan
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