setting default xterm colors

[Carlo Florendo]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>
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>>I've got a follow-up question:  I run startx and an xterm fires up.  
>>That's no problem.   When I invoke another xterm from the xterm that 
>>just started, I now get the proper background and foreground colors but  
>>`ls -l' does not display color coded directory entries anymore on the 
>>newly invoked xterm (It does display the colors from the xterm invoked 
>>by startx, though).   Everything would work fine if I invoke `xterm -e 
>>/bin/bash --login -i' since I've aliased ls to `ls --color=auto' in my 
>>bash configuration file.  Is there any way to make my xterm understand 
>>`ls --color-auto' without loading the shell configuration files (since 
>>it's from my bash configuration that I set `ls --color-auto')?
>>    
>>
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>No that I know of. But bash knows two kinds of configuration files.
>
>~/.bashrc and ~/.profile (see man bash for details). .profile is read 
>when invoked with --login otherwise .bashrc. you can put the alias command
>to .bashrc and source that from .profile too
>
>==~/.bashrc==
>alias ls=ls --color=auto
>
>==~/.profile==
>if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
>        . ~/.bashrc
>fi
>  
>

Thank you for the insights, Alexander! 

With much appreiciation,

Carlo

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