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#1 2011-06-10 20:41:47
- archer42
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Colored Prompt [solved]
Hi, I changed from Gentoo to archlinux.
From Gentoo I like the nice colored bash prompt, unfortunatly Arch doesnt have this at default so I googled a little bit and created with "dircolors -p > /etc/DIR_COLORS" a File for the colors and copied the gentoo .bashrc into the root dir.
But I still dont have any colors by logging on.. what am I doing wrong?
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#2 2011-06-10 20:47:39
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
Does this solution work for you?
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#3 2011-06-10 20:58:05
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
No, tried this too. Could it be that colors are disabled?
There only colors by the init scripts and by vim
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#4 2011-06-10 21:07:52
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
The link bohoomil posted worked for me - both for root and the user - and I don't recall enabling colors or anything like that.
Does
ls --colorshow colored output?
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#5 2011-06-10 21:17:22
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
No, still grey/white 
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#6 2011-06-10 22:07:14
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
Have you set USECOLOR="yes" in your rc.conf?
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#7 2011-06-11 07:09:51
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
Is set too, could it be that I dont have a colored console because of UTF-8?
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#8 2011-06-11 11:13:08
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
Is set too, could it be that I dont have a colored console because of UTF-8?
Are you using the default Arch configs? Maybe some stuff you migrated from gentoo gets in the way.
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#9 2011-06-11 11:49:46
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
@karol
yes, i just migrated the gentoo .bashrc, but i tried also the .bashrc from /etc/skel so the default and added the dir volor function, both aren't working
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#10 2011-06-13 08:23:16
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
I found the problem...
The Problem was that because of the missing .bas_profile, bash didnt automaticly source .bashrc. so the colour settings didnt load.
Now everything works well how it should with gentoo .bashrc and the .bash_profile from /etc/skel
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#11 2011-06-13 13:55:52
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Re: Colored Prompt [solved]
Please add [solved] to the topic's title.
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