shell colours

[phunni]

When I first installed mandrake and opend a shell (usually konsole) different types of file would appear in different colours - directories blue, executables in green etc...

 

For some reason this is no loner the case - can anyone ive me any tips as to how to restore this?

It's as it was when I am logged in via su, but not a normal user

[aru]

Do a little search on this board because I remember answering a similar question here... or was the old board... don't know.

 

give a try to "search" and if you find nothing, I'll be glad to help you tonight (i'm in a hurry now)

[ramfree17]

man ls. there is an option there that inlcudes the coloring scheme. ls is usually aliased to that but either something has changed in your system configuration (/etc/profile or in on of the .sh files called in it) or you have aliased ls with another set of options in your ~/.bash_profile or in your ~/-bashrc.

 

sorry, i dont have a linux machine right now or ill post it right on.

 

ciao!

[phunni]

I have looked at my /etc/profile and I have searched the forum and neither has fixed this (although I did figure out how to improve my bash prompt :mystismiles: )

 

A little while ao - my .bashrc seemed to have disappeared altogether - so my current .bashrc is one I have put together to re-enable Java etc... - it contains very little. I'm not sure what happened to the original file though.

 

It has just occured to me to see if there is a clue in root's .bashrc (assumin there is one) - I'll post on my progress

[phunni]

no clues ... :(

[Steve Scrimpshire]

You have two files in /etc/profile.d:

 

color ls.csh:

# color-ls initialization

set COLORS=/etc/DIR_COLORS

eval `dircolors -c /etc/DIR_COLORS`

test -f ~/.dircolors && eval `dircolors -c ~/.dircolors` && set COLORS=~/.dircolors

test -f ~/.dir_colors && eval `dircolors -c ~/.dir_colors` && set COLORS=~/.dir_colors



egrep -qi "^COLOR.*none" $COLORS



if ( $? != 0 ) then

alias ls 'ls --color=tty'

endif

 

and

 

color ls.sh:

#!/bin/bash

eval `dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS`



# default ls options

LS_OPTIONS="-F"



# this should be removed once the bug with ls and multibytes locales is fixed

[ -r /etc/profile.d/lang.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

case "$LC_ALL$LC_CTYPE" in

ja*|ko*|zh*) LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --show-control-chars";;

*) if [ "`locale charmap`" = "UTF-8" ]; then

 LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --show-control-chars"

   fi;;

esac



# emacs doesn't support color

if [ $TERM != "emacs" ];then

LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --color=auto"

fi



alias ls="ls $LS_OPTIONS"

 

dircolors -c on my computer gives:

[omar@omarserenity omar]$ dircolors -c

setenv LS_COLORS 'no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:'

[Steve Scrimpshire]

My ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]

MenuBar=Enabled

defaultfont=fixed,12,5,15,50,0

has frame=true

schema=/usr/share/apps/konsole/Linux.schema

scrollbar=2

 

/usr/share/apps/konsole/Linux.schema looks like this:

# linux color schema for konsole



title Linux Colors



# FIXME

#

# The flaw in this schema is that "blick" comes out on the

# Linux console as intensive background, really.

# Since this is not used in clients you'll hardly notice

# it in practice.



# foreground colors



# note that the default background color is flagged

# to become transparent when an image is present.



#   slot    transparent bold

#      | red grn blu  | |

#      V V--color--V  V V



color  0 178 178 178  0 0  # regular   foreground color (White)

color  1   0   0   0  1 0  # regular   background color (Black)



color  2   0   0   0  0 0  # regular   color 0 Black

color  3 178  24  24  0 0  # regular   color 1 Red

color  4  24 178  24  0 0  # regular   color 2 Green

color  5 178 104  24  0 0  # regular   color 3 Yellow

color  6  24  24 178  0 0  # regular   color 4 Blue

color  7 178  24 178  0 0  # regular   color 5 Magenta

color  8  24 178 178  0 0  # regular   color 6 Cyan

color  9 178 178 178  0 0  # regular   color 7 White



# intensive colors



# instead of changing the colors, we've flaged the text to become bold



color 10 255 255 255  0 0  # intensive foreground color

color 11 104 104 104  1 0  # intensive background color



color 12 104 104 104  0 0  # intensive color 0

color 13 255  84  84  0 0  # intensive color 1

color 14  84 255  84  0 0  # intensive color 2

color 15 255 255  84  0 0  # intensive color 3

color 16  84  84 255  0 0  # intensive color 4

color 17 255  84 255  0 0  # intensive color 5

color 18  84 255 255  0 0  # intensive color 6

color 19 255 255 255  0 0  # intensive color 7

[pmpatrick]

Edit your home made .bashrc file to include the following alias:

 

alias ls= 'ls --color=auto'

 

That should give you color coded files, directories, ect. for the ls command if that's what your looking for.

[phunni]

Thanks - that seems to have made a difference