No Colour In Slack Terms

[MrNewbie]

When I am on the command line only in Slackware ls outputs in colour, vim is in colour and so are all other programs with colour output but when I am in X using either Powershell, Xterm or Eterm (I tried them all) they all make everything black and white unless I change the font colours and then they're whatever I make them but thats only defult text, vim will still have no colour and neither will wil ls except for the colour I set the font as. I tried adding
alias ls='ls --color' to my .profile file but it doesnt work even though if I do ls --colour in the terminal it displays output in colour and also manually typing alias ls='ls --color' will make ls list in colour, it seems my .profile file isnt being processed when I run one of the terminal programs but even if it was I doubt this would solve the problem with vim not having colour.
Is there anything I can do about this? My Debian terminals have colour but Slackware ones dont.
Thanks for any help

[TaeShadow]

Add that line to your ~/.bashrc file and see if it helps.

[MrNewbie]

Thanks a lot! That fixed the ls colour problem but programs like vim and lynx are still in black and white, is there anyway to fix that? They're fine in CLI only.
Thanks

[MrNewbie]

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I tried it in rvterm too, same thing, no colour unless I specifically do a ls -color or alis it but then no program like lynx have colour.
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[bdl]

Normally you'll want to specify the term type, e.g. xterm-color when you fire up that xterm. So try:

xterm -tn xterm-color

...this is of course also in conjunction with the 'ls --color' param.

[sincka]

vim:

get vim-rt and when in it type

:syntax on

and booyeah!

[MrNewbie]

The syntax on I have done in my .vimrc file so its definitly the terminal but thanks anyway, I'll try that term type thing now, thanks.

[MrNewbie]

That worked for xterm and that displays in colour, but does anyone know if there there is a similar option for powershell? I checked the site and it doesnt mention it, but maybe there is?

[MrNewbie]

I can't get Powershell to work with colour at all so is there a way to force Eterm to display colour output like there is for xterm? Also, since Powershell just runs bash, is there a way to force bash to display in colour? I looked in the man page but theres no mention of it.
Or can anyone suggest another terminal program that has the option to display colour output and can be made transparent and tinted?
Thanks alot

[ 19 April 2001: Message edited by: MrNewbie ]