Colours with Linux terminals Colours with Linux terminals Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen, [e-mail]1.4, 7 August 1997Most Linux distributions have a 'ls' command for listing the contents of a directory that can visually enhance their output by using different colours, but configuring this to taste may not be a trivial task. This document explains the various aspects and approaches of altering the setup by configuring existing software, plus locations of alternative software usually not included with Slackware or RedHat, which may be used on most versions of Unix. The HTML version is also available from my own source at http://www.mip.ou.dk/~ravn/colour-ls.1. Introduction2. Quickstart for the impatient3. Do I have it at all?4. Which colours is there to choose from?5. How to configure colours with ls6. How to change the text-mode default from white-on-black6.1 Xterm6.2 Virtual console.6.3 Remote login7. Software U