How to eliminate "ls" color in xterm -

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 06:29, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:14:26 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>How can I eliminate color in "ls" listings?
> >>
> >>In .bashrc  can add    alias ls='ls --color=never'
> >>
> >>But this does not change the listing in the gui terminal window.
> >>
> >>There must be a place to "alias" ls  for something like    ls -l --si 
> >>--color=never  ?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I type \ls instead of ls when I don't want the colours.
> >
> >  
> >
> Ok "\ls" works, I thank you for that ...
> 
> How can I change the colors?  The problem is that the Blue 
> directory
> listings are very difficult to read and as a result I have 
> been changing
> the xterm fg and bg settings in an attempt to improve things 
> without
> much improvement. If I make the bg white [set to gray now] 
> then I can't
> read some of the yellow text in the man pages. The colors 
> are helpful
> but I need to change them a little. What I really need to 
> know is what
> file contains the color settings? I have been unable to find 
> that.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Bob Goodwin    Zuni, Virginia
> 
I have my term background set to yellow and it makes the blue text stand
out clearly.