xterm colour

2005-12-02 Thread Karl
Hi, this is my first post as it is my first lfs build. My install went very well and am now on the blfs stuff. I installed xorg and minimal dependancies (libpng & fontconfig). ls colours work fine in a tty but I can't seem to get a colour terminal in X, also I installed the midnight commander (mc)

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-02 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 12/2/05, Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see scripts which add "xterm-color" to my exports > (eg. /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh) but I can't seem to get them to work > - if I do "export TERM=xterm-color" then open a new xterm, still no > color. > I can't see the relationships going on

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-02 Thread Matt Darcy
Karl wrote: Hi, this is my first post as it is my first lfs build. My install went very well and am now on the blfs stuff. I installed xorg and minimal dependancies (libpng & fontconfig). ls colours work fine in a tty but I can't seem to get a colour terminal in X, also I installed the midnight c

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-02 Thread Karl
> try as a test setting the term type to TERM=linux > > see how that goes. > > Matt Thanks for the replys (Jeremy and Matt), unfortunately I have been dragged off to work so will try it later on :( Have a good afternoon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://ww

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-02 Thread Karl
hi, I want to be a bit more specific (or anal!), I wanted to make it global. Upon reviewing the /etc/bashrc, it contains: alias 'ls = ls --color=auto' but it also contains: source /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh which in turn contains: export TERM=xterm-color If I type "export" it display

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-03 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 12/2/05, Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, I want to be a bit more specific (or anal!), I wanted to make it > global. Upon reviewing the /etc/bashrc, it contains: > > alias 'ls = ls --color=auto' > > but it also contains: > > source /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh > > which in turn contain

Re: xterm colour

2005-12-03 Thread Karl
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 12:17 +0100, Jeremy Monnet wrote: > An easy way to fix all the problem is for example to create a > ~/.bashrc file, and a symlink on it from ~/.bash_profile > Jeremy Many thanks for the description of such a basic concept, much appreciated. I will read bash's fine manual mor