Re: terminal colors

2002-10-21 Thread Russell
Brian Fallik wrote: > > Hi. I'm having problems getting colors to appear in my BASH prompt in Woody > (3.0). This is on a fresh install I just finished today. I've made very > few changes to the system so far... Are you setting ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile in the right user account? You may ha

Re: terminal colors

2002-10-21 Thread Teresa Ramanan
You can use ANSI escape sequences. For instance, in my .bash_profile my prompt is defined as: PS1="\[\033[1;33m\][\033[0m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\u\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;34m\]@\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\w\[\033[1;33m\]]\033[0m\]\$ " More information can be found here: http://www.dreaming.org/

Re: terminal colors

2002-10-21 Thread steve
I have been wondering the same exact thing. I think it is just thier way to discurage root logins. - Original Message - From: "Brian Fallik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:49 PM Subject: terminal colors > Hi. I&

terminal colors

2002-10-21 Thread Brian Fallik
Hi. I'm having problems getting colors to appear in my BASH prompt in Woody (3.0). This is on a fresh install I just finished today. I've made very few changes to the system so far. When I ssh (protocol v2) into my debian server, the prompt is monochrome. I've tried to export the TERM variable

Re: Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-09 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Thanks for the info and help. setterm -background black -foreground green -save was what I was looking for. -=[cwa]=- Debian 2.2_r2 On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Sebastian Drews wrote: :)Christopher Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :)> In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change :)> my n

Re: Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-08 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:42:38PM +, Sebastian Drews wrote: > Christopher Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change > > my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green > > foreground. It is much easier on the eyes for me. Can > > this

Re: Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-08 Thread Sebastian Drews
Christopher Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change > my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green > foreground. It is much easier on the eyes for me. Can > this be done in Debian Linux, or for that matter, any > flavor of Linux? $ set

Re: Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0400, Christopher Aiken wrote: > I have a tripple boot system at home. W98/FreeBSD/Debian. > Yeah, I know, but I enjoy the punishment. > > In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change > my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green > for

Console Terminal Colors

2001-06-08 Thread Christopher Aiken
I have a tripple boot system at home. W98/FreeBSD/Debian. Yeah, I know, but I enjoy the punishment. In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green foreground. It is much easier on the eyes for me. Can this be done in Debian Li