directory colors. how do i get it?

[slimbim]

Ok. I've searched a lot, and found out that i need to do something with DIRCOLORS and xinitrc and others, but I have no idea what to do. I read that some other distributions already have this, so just use their DIRCOLORS file, but i dont' know how to do this either.

When I first boot into gentoo, I first get the text prompt, and then I start X, or KDE or Gnome or whatever desktop environment. I mostly use Enlightenment (not really, since installing gentoo last week, haven't done much with it).

In the text prompt, right after I boot, if I do ls or ls -la, it will list the contents with different colors for text, directory, links and such. I want this in the xterm or any terminal within enlightenment or kde or whatever. Can someone direct me to some instructions on how to do this?

Thank you!

[Valen]

I'm not entirely sure how Gentoo handles this, but what is probably happening is that an alias is being made in /etc/profile or in your .bash_profile/.bashrc. It will look something like this "alias ls='/bin/ls -F --color'", now you can either make your xterm a login shell (run xterm with "xterm -ls") which should process the above files and make the nice alias.

Another option would be to write a simple script which would call that: make a text file in /usr/bin (call it lc or something easy to remember) which contains:

[pjp]

See if this trhead helps.

This question has been asked many, many times.

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