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jeezus84

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 14

colors lost in Konsole

Heya.

When I first installed KDE 3.4, i had these nifty colors in Konsole when I would list a directory. Then they went away, mysteriously. I'm not sure what I did, if anything, but they are gone. All I get now is white text on a black background, regardless of file type. These is using the 'Linux Colors' schema under the Settings menu.

Any ideas?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: colors lost in Konsole

Do you have 'alias ls='ls --color=auto' line in your .bashrc (if you're using bash, that is)?

Do you have colors in virtual consoles (vc 1-6)?

jeezus84

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 14

Re: colors lost in Konsole

okay, that fixed it.

one more question regarding colours. When I was using gentoo, my prompt had cool colors too. the user name was in green, or something, the domain name in red, and the directory in green again.

How would one go about changing these colours? Thanks.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: colors lost in Konsole

See: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=1817

Here's mine, if you're interested:

PS1='[33[0;31m][[33[1;32m]t[33[0;31m]][[33[0;32m]u@h[33[0;31m]][[33[1;32m]W[33[0;31m]][33[1;31m]$[33[0m] '

You place that line usually in ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile (globally).

HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: colors lost in Konsole

Sorry to break in on the thread.

I'm using XFCE. I've got those nice colors in my terminal as well, but I was wondering if there is a list what they mean.

Blue=
Cyan=

Anyone can help me on this. Also, where can I define theme?

Cheers!

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"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness..." Major Motoko Kusanagi

Blazeix

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Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 25

Re: colors lost in Konsole

@HydroDiOxide: take a look at 'man dircolors' and 'man dir_colors'