Bob Goodwin wrote: > Thanks for the help but in my case it seems things are a bit > different since I use XFCE rather than Gnome. The settings aren't really dependent on using Gnome or XFCE. The main thing to check is what the value for the TERM environmental var is set to. If it is set to xterm, then the colorls.sh script that is sourced by bash on startup is going to use /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm instead of /etc/DIR_COLORS. Here's the relevant section from /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: COLORS=/etc/DIR_COLORS [ -e "/etc/DIR_COLORS.$TERM" ] && COLORS="/etc/DIR_COLORS.$TERM" [ -e "$HOME/.dircolors" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors" [ -e "$HOME/.dircolors.$TERM" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors.$TERM" [ -e "$HOME/.dir_colors" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dir_colors" [ -e "$HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM" ] && COLORS="$HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM" Use "echo $TERM" to see what your terminal has set TERM to. I don't want to change the system-wide setting, so I choose to put my colors in ~/.dircolors. Since that is checked after the system-wide files are checked and I don't have a ~/.dircolors.$TERM, I get the same colors for both consoles and terminals. The default /etc/DIR_COLORS enables bold, so when I copy it to ~/.dircolors and then source /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh, my colors now include bold. Does that not work the same in your case? -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Plagiarism saves time.
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