Craig Skinner <craig@openpost.org> writes: > Hi there, > > I've Googled for this and not found anything relevant. > > When I ssh to my debian testing box, vim, mutt, ls, etc all work with > color. > > But when I connect a monitor and keyboard locally, just mono. > > What do I need to be looking at? Check your TERM environment variable when logged into the (local) console. Value should be 'linux'. Regards, Bruno.