Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

["Pete Peterson" <petersonp genrad com>]

I haven't loaded 6.2 yet, but I detest the color "ls" that has been around
for a while.  It makes things much harder to read on just about any kind
of background.  The light blue is nearly unreadable on a white background
and the dark blue is nearly unreadable on a black background.  Other
background colors are likely to have similar problems.

It also breaks scripts, putting rubbish escape sequences into the output.

I definitely agree that it should **NOT** be the default!

If you find out how to make this bad undesirable behavior go away, please
send me the solution.


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> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:14:33 -0500
> From: Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal pppl gov>
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: Annoying color features in RH6.2
> 
> Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying color feature for the man pages
> in RH 6.2?
> 
> I renamed the colorls.* files in /etc/profile.d and changed 
>         
>         COLOR tty
> to
>         COLOR none
> 
> in /etc/DIR_COLOR, but the man pages are still in color making them practically
> unreadable, especially against the black background I prefer for my terminals
> windows. I can't find any documentation for diabling this feature for the
> manpages.
> 
> IMHO, this feature is completely unnecessary and extremely annoying. RH should
> have left this feature turned off by default and documented how to turn it *on*
> instead. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Prentice Bisbal
> pbisbal pppl gov
> Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
> http://www.pppl.gov