terminal text attributes - setting

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:20 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> > -----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.
> > 
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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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