Hi, this is something which has baffled me for a while. On an amd64 system at least, when you log in on a text console, $TERM is set to vt100. This gives a barely functional terminal with notably no support for colors. The wsvt25 terminal type corresponds much better to, well, the wsvt driver, so a simple
export TERM=wsvt25 makes a number of console applications display colors. Why is this not the default? -- Benny
