Re: gnome-terminal color problems

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbm oncable dk>]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:52, Peter J. Viglucci wrote:
> I posted a message a few days ago stating that I couldn't get 
> gnome-terminal to display any colors unless I passed the --color switch 
> to ls. I received a few replies and have been trying to track down the 
> problem for the past few days. Shoan Motwani gave me the best lead. His 
> idea was to delete all values for palette in 
> /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default using gconf-editor. That worked 
> fine when executed as root. I had no result after deleting those values 
> as a normal user. There is one difference between the two users. Root 
> only has the Default gnome-terminal profile, but my normal user account 
> has two different profiles (I deleted the palette values in both 
> profiles). Deleting the extra profile for my user account, and leaving 
> just the default, still did not fix the problem. But, if I su to root I 
> magically get color output. I should note that my distro is redhat 9. 
> Can anybody recreate this problem? Is it a known bug that multiple 
> terminal profiles break color output? Where are the gnome-terminal 
> settings located? I removed the extra profile from within the terminal, 
> and deleted the profile's directory from 
> ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/ (it remained even after I deleted 
> the profile in the terminal).  Did I get them all? Thanks.

A quick guess: your root account has ls aliased to 'ls --color'. That is
at least the case on Redhat 8. It is probably the asme in RH 9 as well.


Cheers,
Jens