On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 > >Neal Becker wrote: > > > >>I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way to > >>turn it off for all users (especially root)? > > > >There is a whole slew of things in /etc/profile that turn on > >annoying environment variables which enable things like that. > >Grep for the one responsible, do an rpm -q -f /etc/profile/whatever > >to see which package inflicted it on you, then yum -C erase > >that package (of course, checking to see there aren't > >other more critical things provided by the package :-). > > > > Personally, I've never liked color ls, largely because it's almost > impossible to find a chart that tells you what the colors mean. I used to > track down where that was set and disable it, but that can get changed by an > update. Now, I just put the following line near the bottom of ~/.bashrc: The colours the OP is refering to is not the coloured output of ls. That is controlled by the environment variable LS_COLORS. The OP has to make sure his PS1 variable does not have any ANSI colour escapes. If you are interested, take a look at my response earlier in the thread. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org