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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: amgh on March 18, 2015, 11:56:53 PM

Title: aterm.tcz - can't see color coded texts
Post by: amgh on March 18, 2015, 11:56:53 PM

Hi, I recently installed TC 6.1 to one of my hard drives. (Frugal install from a USB stick.)

When I open the terminal window of aterm, I can no longer see the default colour coded texts - blue directories, green executables, etc. Everything is just white texts on black background.

On my USB stick, aterm window is fine with the default colors.

What has happened here? I can give further information if required. I think this happened once before when installing TC 6.0. I just did a reinstall of the whole TC to get back the color that time.

(Using Xorg)

Thank you.

Title: Re: aterm.tcz - can't see color coded texts
Post by: curaga on March 19, 2015, 04:34:36 AM

You likely installed GNU ls, which defaults to colors off. Busybox ls defaults to on.

To change this with GNU ls, you'd add

alias ls="ls --color"

to your .profile.

Title: Re: aterm.tcz - can't see color coded texts
Post by: amgh on March 19, 2015, 11:42:18 AM

Code: [Select]

# ~/.profile: Executed by Bourne-compatible login SHells.
#
# Path to personal scripts and executables (~/.local/bin).
[ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] || mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/bin"
export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

ONDEMAND=/etc/sysconfig/tcedir/ondemand
[ -d "$ONDEMAND" ] && export PATH=$PATH:"$ONDEMAND"

# Environment variables and prompt for Ash SHell
# or Bash. Default is a classic prompt.
#
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
PAGER='less -EM'
MANPAGER='less -isR'


EDITOR=vi

export PS1 PAGER FILEMGR EDITOR MANPAGER

export BACKUP=1
[ "`id -un`" = "`cat /etc/sysconfig/tcuser`" ] && echo "$BACKUP" | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/backup >/dev/null 2>&1
export FLWM_TITLEBAR_COLOR="58:7D:AA"

if [ -f "$HOME/.ashrc" ]; then
   export ENV="$HOME/.ashrc"
   . "$HOME/.ashrc"
fi

TERMTYPE=`/usr/bin/tty`
[ ${TERMTYPE:5:3} == "tty" ] && (
[ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/Xserver ] ||
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/text ] ||
[ -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ] ||
startx
)

This is the contents of my .profile.

Can I add the suggested alias ls="ls --color" anywhere in this file? I tried the above suggestion but there was no color yet.

Thanks.

Title: Re: aterm.tcz - can't see color coded texts
Post by: gerald_clark on March 19, 2015, 11:56:28 AM

You need to logoff and log back in.
I would add it to .ashrc.

Title: Re: aterm.tcz - can't see color coded texts
Post by: amgh on March 20, 2015, 10:55:53 AM

I added the line to .ashrc, and now the terminal works with the color coded texts, back to normal.

Thank you!