Colors in Telnet Sessions !!

[Chapaya]

Hello ,
How do i set Colors in telnet sessions ?
What commands shuold i add to .profile ?
Eran .

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

see /etc/rc.config.d/list_mode

alternatively old 3d glasses can be useful.

[Khalid A. Al-Tayaran]

You can use Exceed without modifying files. But you'll have one color for for the text in that particular session. Other servers can have different colors.

[David Child_1]

What do you wish to be in color? (e.g. text=blue, background=black, prompt=red, etc.)

Do you need the colors to be different for different sessions?

Thanks,
David

[Steve Steel]

Hi

export PS1=$($HOME/bin/setPS1)

With a script like this


#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Make certain that the length of time fields is 2-digit:
#set -x
typeset -RZ2 hr min sec

# Get a string which is parsable to the number of seconds.
let SECONDS=$(/usr/bin/date '+3600*%H+60*%M+%S')

s='(hr=(SECONDS/3600)%24)==(min=(SECONDS/60)%60)==(sec=SECONDS%60)'
d=
TIME='"${d[s]}$hr:$min:$sec"'
#export MESSAGE=\\${TIME}':'"On "\\$PWD" "\\$MESSAGE
#echo $TIME $MESSAGE
echo "\e&v4S $LOGNAME \e&v5S $(uname -nmrv) \e&v2S:\e&v4S $MESSAGE
\e&v5S\\$PWD\e&v1S >\e&v0S"



Will give you a prompt in color


Steve Steel

[Mark Greene_1]

See the man pages for tput, untic, and terminfo. You may need to modify the terminal information database, in which case you'll want to look here for that info:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html

which is the most exhuastive repository of terminal information on the net.

HTH
mark

[Helen French]

What type of terminal are you using? Is it a X Windows session? What type of emulation? Software?

[David Child_1]

If you are using an xterm I'm not sure how much you can do. If you are using dtterm you could do something like:

echo '\033[1m\033[33m'

This will turn your text bold and yellow.

bold = \033[1m
yellow = \033[33m
green = \033[32m
red = \033[31m
blue = \033[34m

David