Terminal font colors?

[Bob Goodwin]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the help but in my case it seems things are a bit
>> different since I use XFCE rather than Gnome.
>>     
>
> The settings aren't really dependent on using Gnome or XFCE.  The main
> thing to check is what the value for the TERM environmental var is set
> to.  If it is set to xterm, then the colorls.sh script that is sourced
> by bash on startup is going to use /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm instead of
> /etc/DIR_COLORS.
>
> Here's the relevant section from /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh:
>
> COLORS=/etc/DIR_COLORS
> [ -e "/etc/DIR_COLORS.$TERM" ] && COLORS="/etc/DIR_COLORS.$TERM"
> [ -e "$HOME/.dircolors" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors"
> [ -e "$HOME/.dircolors.$TERM" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors.$TERM"
> [ -e "$HOME/.dir_colors" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dir_colors"
> [ -e "$HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM"
>
> Use "echo $TERM" to see what your terminal has set TERM to.  I don't
> want to change the system-wide setting, so I choose to put my colors
> in 


> .  Since that is checked after the system-wide files
> are checked and I don't have a ~/.dircolors.$TERM, I get the same
> colors for both consoles and terminals.
>
> The default /etc/DIR_COLORS enables bold, so when I copy it to
> ~/.dircolors and then source /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh, my colors now
> include bold.  Does that not work the same in your case?
>   
Yes, I had been messing with that and set it to [07] reverse video and 
then set it back to [01] bold.



Not exactly, echo $TERM  responds 'xterm'

And it I do 'xterm'  I get a small terminal with black text on white 
whereas doing 'xfterm4' produces another XFCE terminal such as I have 
now configured to my liking.  So it appears there is a difference with 
xfce installed?

Also I don't find a  '~/.dircolors' must I create that?  

Bob Goodwin