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Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal

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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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Problem with colors in terminal steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2017-07-12 10:10 +0200
  Re: Problem with colors in terminal deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-07-12 11:10 +0200
    [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2017-07-12 11:40 +0200
      Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-12 13:10 +0200
        Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-12 14:40 +0200
        Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2017-07-12 16:20 +0200
          Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-12 16:30 +0200
            Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2017-07-12 16:40 +0200

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