Terminal Emulator with Color for BSD

[LuckyTaxi]

Just installed WindowMaker running on Freebsd 4.6.2 and I dont like the default xterm that comes with it. It's got an ugly black on white theme. I cant seem to change it and I dont like the text being black. I would like something like "konsole" that comes with KDE with the color coded directory and executable files distinction.

Any suggestions?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

You can customize xterm by changing the command that executes it.


For example, if you want white text and a black background, xterm -fg white -bg black &

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Yes i did that, but the color doesnt resemble what I have under Redhat. File showing up as red, directory blue, etc...

 

[TheOmegaCode]

You are being vague. You don't get any colors at all, or it just doesn't look like konsole?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
You are being vague. You don't get any colors at all, or it just doesn't look like konsole?

He isnt setting it up to use colors. Most linux distros do this by default.

EDIT: install gnu ls, an use that.

EDIT2: try ls -color

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Is there a file I can edit to enable the color feature

What I mean by seeing colors is to have the directories and files color coded. I can change the BG and FG to whatever I want,
but the FG color is set to whatever I want and will not vary according to the file type. I like the way it looks under Linux. I run Windowmaker under RH with xterm as my terminal emulator and i see pretty colors!

Ive tried everything Ive read in various newsgroups.

Added "xterm:termname: xterm-color" to a file called .xdefault and that didnt work

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lilcam
Is there a file I can edit to enable the color feature

What I mean by seeing colors is to have the directories and files color coded. I can change the BG and FG to whatever I want,
but the FG color is set to whatever I want and will not vary according to the file type. I like the way it looks under Linux. I run Windowmaker under RH with xterm as my terminal emulator and i see pretty colors!

Ive tried everything Ive read in various newsgroups.

Added "xterm:termname: xterm-color" to a file called .xdefault and that didnt work

alias ls="ls -color"