Background (no pun intended) I administer several systems of various redhat releases and in working with a new redhat 8.0 server the xterm or whatever is the default term in gnome has a white bg. Now I personally dislike white background since they are hard on my eyes but I do like the colors in ls. That is probably another discussion. Well maybe not, if you know where to change the colors to black bg I would be grateful. The machine is across town and I am rarely sitting at the console or even using x programs.
The real issue is that when I ssh into the box from a black background xterm, the ls colors are so dark that I can't see them. in trying to grok the LS_COLORS setup I see that in 8.0 RH included a /etc/DIRCOLORS.xterm file and that is what is getting picked up and setting the colors to not use the bold attribute on things like directories. Copying DIRCOLORS to ~/dircolors fixes the remote problem since it still had the 01 attribute set. If and when I get back to the site and run x, the colors are going to be hard to read since the bg is white there ( see above), right? Now the question. Is there a mechanism to let terminal based applications that may need to write different colors to the screen to know what the background of the screen is so they can get it right? The machine in question is not really mine. I just consult with the NT admin that is brave enough begin replacing NT boxes with linux and I am loathe to change too much outside of my user account since it is "his" box. As always, Tips appreciated. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
