customize terminal

Because I've mentioned it elsewhere, and people have asked: I use sysutils/tmux for building the system: # svn up /usr/src # tmux # cd /usr/src # make -j8 buildworld Then ctrl-b d detaches the tmux session. It won't be killed if I lose the connection to that machine. tmux attach reattaches...

Tonight, I wanted to make x11/rxvt-unicode and sysutils/tmux to work with 256 colors. It took me around 2 hours to get this working. So how to get that working? Step 1 uninstall devel/ncurses install devel/ncurses-devel Step 2 Reinstall all ports that used to depend on...

Using 9.0 release, I have a entry to load the vesa module in /boot/loader.cfg. I have an entry in /etc/rc.conf allscreens_flags="MODE_357" For some reason the vesa module is not being loaded during boot, and then allscreens option to change the virtual terminal modes fails. I had this working...

A simple little hack (for tcsh) that allows ease of use when adding/removing/changing file colors based on file extension. Enjoy. # ~/.colors v0.99 for FreeBSD tcsh - [c]2012 Michael S. Sanders # SYNOPSIS: an enhancement of the tcsh builtin 'LS_COLORS' providing a # method of...

I'm truly enjoying FreeBSD 8.2. I work in the console, but I can't get vidcontrol to accept a 1680x1050 resolution. How to get the console to run in 1680x1050? I would really appreciate anyone to share how to do it. Thanks.

I'm administering a FreeBSD server and added an account I will use for testing scripts. I chose the Bourne shell as the default shell to use, and I login using ssh from a macOSX terminal window. When I login, there usually are some default shell script files that get executed by the system...

I decieded to start this thread after reading the thread 'Which shell do you use?'. I'll start, mine is below. # .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell # # # -- Set up command aliases alias searchports 'find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs...

Hi list, Is there a way to set the command prompt $PS1 with shell scrypt? I can't use .profile because we are few users on one account and each user prefers different PS1. I tried with file.sh: PS1=`uname -n`:'$PWD'# ; export PS1 but after the execution of file.sh, PS1 remains the same...

Hi. I wan to change my login prompt and found something like below: Someone can explain me how change this prompt ?. I see nothing "r". Greetz.

How do i edit shrc (for the user ) to activate tab-autocompletion. I searched the web, no luck.

Hi, I have a .profile document BASH previously when I use FreeBSD 6.4 "ls" any extension of the file when I was making color the way I want. I'm using FreeBSD 8.0 as my computer now, "ls" does not work when I already set the colors how I can fix # /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide...

Hi All: I'm a novice of FreeBSD. I'd like to set my prompt like this: [user]@[hostname]:[current path]> What should I do? Also, is there any documents about the .cshrc? Thanks

Hi All: I am not familiar with the shell script. But I would like to have the command prompt in the following "look": [username]@[hostname][current path]> What should I do in the .login file (or other file)?? Thanks.