RE: terminal text attributes - setting

["Bret Stern" <bret_stern machinemanagement com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens internap com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: bret_stern machinemanagement com; 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.

 

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