Subject: RE: terminal text attributes - setting 2007-09-26 - By Rick Stevens
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On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:20 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens@(protected)]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:04 PM
> > To: bret_stern@(protected); Getting started with
> > Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: terminal text attributes - setting
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:42 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> > > I'm using Windows Remote Desktop to connect to a MS Windows Server,
> > > then using "putty" from the server to establish an inside
> > connection
> > > to a Fedora 5 terminal screen.
> > >
> > > When doing a "ls -l" command, the results are very hard to read.
> > >
> > > Can I configure the way (color, font size etc) are displayed on the
> > > Fedora terminal window?
> >
> > To a point. You can control the colors via the "dircolors"
> > command and use "ls --color=[auto|always|never]" to control
> > when colors are displayed.
> >
> > As to the font, there is a "putty" term type in the system
> > that should handle most of your stuff. If you really need to
> > change it, you can run the "setfont" command. There's a
> > bunch of fonts in the /lib/kbd/consolefonts directory. Be
> > careful with those. You may end up with something TOTALLY unreadable.
> >
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> This provided me with some help. I'm seeing clearly now.
> The changes i made to the /etc/DIR_COLORS file did not
> take place until i logged out, then back in.
Yeah, your shell run "dircolors" on login. You can run the command
interactively:
dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS
to make it immediate.
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