Terminal Colors Are Gone

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Terminal Colors Are Gone

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I get no varied colors in Terminal - I have tried Gnome, Konsole, Mate - and all file and directories are all the same color. I have varied Themes, Colors, System Colors. In Ubuntu I always got varied colors in Gnome Terminal. I suspect this is a system problem as all terminals behave the same. What am I missing?
I can color the directories with ls -al --color but that is the only difference.

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qrp@laptop:~$ neofetch
Laptop Make & Model > Clevo: N141CU 
OS: LMDE 5 (elsie) x86_64 
Kernel: 5.10.0-14-amd64 
Shell: bash 5.1.4 
DE: Cinnamon 5.2.7 
WM: Mutter (Muffin) 
CPU: Intel i7-10510U (8) @ 4.900GHz [102.2°F] 
CPU Usage: 5% 
Disk (/): 11G / 50G (23%) 
GPU: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] 
GPU Driver: i915 
Memory: 3629MiB / 15699MiB (23%) 
Resolution: 1920x1080
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Re: Terminal Colors Are Gone

Post by Coggy »

I think colour is normally turned on by this line in ~/.bashrc: alias ls='ls --color=auto' (I'm on Ubuntu right now but mint will be similar).
So try looking at your ~/.bashrc file and add the line if it's not there.
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