Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Carsten Wimmer
Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. But if I type something on the keyboard and hit column ~70, all the next characters are placed on the same row and column

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. But if I type something on the keyboard and hit

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine.

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote: Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-27 Thread Juergen Fornoff
I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: export PS1='\e[0;5;36m\h:\e[0;42;30m\w\e[1;40;35m' and see what happens. those esc-sequences should work: \e[2J