On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:47:42PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
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.
Sorry - hit send too early.
To get the console bits working, you need also to create a ~/.bash_profile,
from which you source ~/.bashrc. When started as a login shell, bash looks
for ~/.bash_profile, not ~/.bashrc. When started as an interactive
subshell, which is what happens when you start xterm, it looks for
~/.bashrc.
This way, you can logically separate setup that only needs to be done once
per login session (exporting certain env variables, setting up ssh-agent,
etc), and things that can be set each time a shell starts up. (All I do
with my ~/.bashrc is read a file of shell aliases, and source the
system-wide /etc/bashrc, where I define suitable globals like $PS1, etc.)
As for the colour, I'm afraid I don't know - my $TERM is the default cons25,
and colour works just fine with `ls -G'.
HTH
Dan
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.
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