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How to enable Color for Terminal?

Postby Olnex on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:34 am

I used to use Ubuntu, now I'm using LinuxMint, the Terminal has no color for directories, files, etc...everything is white, how can I enable color terminal?
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Postby nick on Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:26 am

Hi

Am on Etch box at moment, but if you open terminal/Edit Profiles/Click on Default/ Edit and choose your setup from there.

Hope it works - Nick
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Postby mmcg on Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:08 pm

make an alias for ls
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alias ls='ls --color=auto'
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Postby mmcg on Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:52 am

Did you get something working for you?
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