[PLUG] !@#$% Color in PuTTY terminals

Aaron Burt aaron at speakeasy.org
Tue May 25 15:15:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:05:56PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I'm stuck at work with a WinXP system and use PuTTY to get to the servers
> I admin and develop on.
> 
> The problem is the damn colorization of everything.  ls, ll, vi, emacs,
> ... is driving me crazy.  Is there a simple way to shut off colorization
> for all applications?  I've looked at the files in /etc/profile.d but the
> colorization made them nearly impossible to read and discover if there was
> a single file/setting solution.

I was pleasantly surprised at how well PuTTY emulated an xterm when
accessing a Linux system, color and all.  But if you don't like it,
there should be a setting for terminal type or answerback.  Change it
from 'xterm' to a terminal that doesn't support color, such as 'vt220'
or 'vt102'.  You can even play with it from a terminal session with e.g.
"export TERM=vt220".

Good luck,
  Aaron




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