On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:40:33AM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: > I am trying to migrate to FreeBSD from Linux, but some things just > aren't working the way I'd like. > > When I launch an xterm it honours my .bashrc, and I get my custom prompt, > which includes colour, but no other colour seems to work - not vim, not > ls -G, not mutt. > > In the console, however, I never get the prompt or the aliases specified > in my .bashrc, and I never get colour. Any pointers? Thanks.
Make a ~/.Xdefaults file, that contains at least this: XTerm*termName: xterm-color You can also customise geometry, background and foreground colour, scrollbar, etc. Check out man xterm for the gory details. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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