Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.08.2013 23:56, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 08/02/2013 02:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> In fact, I have thwarted that on my system by running a >> yum "hook" function that re-applies all my hacks every time >> there is an update, but it is silly that I have to resort >> to that. > > This is why I

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Zeff said: > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time > to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it > easy to understand would be nice, but at this time, I'll refer you > to what Rhett Butler said at the end of Gone With The W

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 02:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: <> Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it easy to understand would be nice, but at this time, I'll refer you to what Rhett Butler said at the end of Gone With

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 8:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 05:00 PM, David wrote: >> Well good then. You changed your system from the distroution defaults to >> what you, personally, want. What works for you. >> >> Windows users do that. they set the default installed system to what >> they want. MacOS u

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 05:00 PM, David wrote: Well good then. You changed your system from the distroution defaults to what you, personally, want. What works for you. Windows users do that. they set the default installed system to what they want. MacOS users do that too. So all is good then? I'd probab

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 7:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 04:20 PM, David wrote: >> Then change youe user's config. That is not touched by system changes >> and will override the system configurations. You should, so I do not >> repeat, read my comment to Joe Zeff about this in this thread. > > And tha

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 04:20 PM, David wrote: Then change youe user's config. That is not touched by system changes and will override the system configurations. You should, so I do not repeat, read my comment to Joe Zeff about this in this thread. And that's why I ended up doing exactly that. It gets m

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 5:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:08:26 -0400 > David wrote: > >> You do know that you can change the system default? > > Not very easily. Every time the package that owns the file > gets an update, the original is put back. > > In fact, I have thwarted that on my

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 4:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 01:08 PM, David wrote: >> You do know that you can change the system default? As well as changing >> it in your users .bashrc file? The best of two worlds you and Joe get it >> your way and the rest of the Fedora world gets it their way. > > Yes

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 02:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: In fact, I have thwarted that on my system by running a yum "hook" function that re-applies all my hacks every time there is an update, but it is silly that I have to resort to that. This is why I referred to my method as elegant: I don't need to know

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:08:26 -0400 David wrote: > You do know that you can change the system default? Not very easily. Every time the package that owns the file gets an update, the original is put back. In fact, I have thwarted that on my system by running a yum "hook" function that re-applies a

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost inv

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 01:08 PM, David wrote: You do know that you can change the system default? As well as changing it in your users .bashrc file? The best of two worlds you and Joe get it your way and the rest of the Fedora world gets it their way. Yes, and that's why instead of wasting time with a p

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/2/2013 1:08 PM, David wrote: On 8/2/2013 3:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: [...] So there is *two* of you? :-) Seriously I can see your problem here. I seriously doubt there are plans to change this or make a GUI to change it. And I seriously doubt that comments here will make any difference.

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Joe, On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 12:11:58PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: > >Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to > >are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. > > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:30 PM, David wrote: As for the colors? Linux is about choice. You don't like them? Remove them and go on your merry way. Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. Or, and this is a distinct possibility, I'm the only one who doesn't like them and is aware

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 3:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 > David wrote: > >> Many others like them since you are the >> only user to complain. > > No, he's not. > > It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are > light foreground and dark background. Most ls outp

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: > Many others like them since you are the > only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost invisible. -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 3:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: >> Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to >> are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. > > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to > translate everything yoursel

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it easy to und

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 2:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >> The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: > > Reading that, the alias is set up, but there's no listing of which color > means what. And, if you do track that down, it's all in hex codes, so > tha

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: Reading that, the alias is set up, but there's no listing of which color means what. And, if you do track that down, it's all in hex codes, so that there's no easy way to find out what those

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce issued this missive: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 > >Neal Becker wrote: > > > >>I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest > >>way to > >>turn it off for all users (especially r

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/01/2013 12:18 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: The colours the OP is refering to is not the coloured output of ls. That is controlled by the environment variable LS_COLORS. The OP has to make sure his PS1 variable does not have any ANSI colour escapes. If you are interested, take a look at my respon

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 > >Neal Becker wrote: > > > >>I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest > >>way to > >>turn it off for all users (especially r

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way to turn it off for all users (especially root)? There is a whole slew of things in /etc/profile that turn on annoying e

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way > to > turn it off for all users (especially root)? There is a whole slew of things in /etc/profile that turn on annoying environment variables which enable thing

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:07:07AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way > to > turn it off for all users (especially root)? You have to set your PS1 in your ~/.bashrc such that there are no colour escapes. This is what I do:

turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Neal Becker
I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way to turn it off for all users (especially root)? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Co