Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal
On 2017-07-12 16:15 +0200, steve wrote:
> Le 12-07-2017, à 13:00:22 +0200, Sven Joachim a écrit :
>
>>> I also had to change my TERM variable to xterm-color in order to work.
>>
>>That's something you definitely don't want to do, xterm-color is for
>>_very_ ancient terminals. Be prepared for misbehavior in curses
>>programs.
>>
>>Is there a reason why you are deviating from the default
>>TERM=xterm-256color in xfce4-terminal?
>
> No, not really (all of this is far from being crystal clear to me). But
> changing to TERM=xterm-256color doesn't show colors.
I wonder if you have an old version of dircolors somewhere which does
not support xterm-256color. What do the following two commands print?
type dircolors
dircolors --version
Cheers,
Sven
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