terminal text attributes - setting
Bret Stern
bret_stern at machinemanagement.com
Wed Sep 26 00:20:25 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at internap.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: bret_stern at 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens at internap.com -
> - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com -
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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.
http://linux.se/showMan.php?COUNT=1538
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