Re: setting default xterm colors

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Carlo Florendo wrote:

> I've got a follow-up question:  I run startx and an xterm fires up.  
> That's no problem.   When I invoke another xterm from the xterm that 
> just started, I now get the proper background and foreground colors but  
> `ls -l' does not display color coded directory entries anymore on the 
> newly invoked xterm (It does display the colors from the xterm invoked 
> by startx, though).   Everything would work fine if I invoke `xterm -e 
> /bin/bash --login -i' since I've aliased ls to `ls --color=auto' in my 
> bash configuration file.  Is there any way to make my xterm understand 
> `ls --color-auto' without loading the shell configuration files (since 
> it's from my bash configuration that I set `ls --color-auto')?

No that I know of. But bash knows two kinds of configuration files.

~/.bashrc and ~/.profile (see man bash for details). .profile is read 
when invoked with --login otherwise .bashrc. you can put the alias command
to .bashrc and source that from .profile too

==~/.bashrc==
alias ls=ls --color=auto

==~/.profile==
if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

bye
	ago
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