On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:09:36PM +0000, John Halfpenny wrote: > This is my first installation of NetBSD (v7 AMD64). The console comes > up in glorious high resolution, but I notice when using htop (for > example) there are no colours.
Most applications query the terminal capabilities and decides whether to use colors or not, maybe your TERM environment variable is wrong? Or there is a setting in htop defaults that switches colours off? The default for you $TERM probably comes from /etc/ttys. Martin