On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:38:32PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Why not use the LS_COLORS environment variable used by coreutils' dircolors? > > Does util-linux need to create something different? because it's absolutely inelegant solution echo $LS_COLORS | wc --bytes 1710 > The main deficiency of terminal-colors.d is that it's system-wide. But > I see this in a blog: > > $HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d overrides the global setting it's already implemented. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/terminal-colors.d.5.html > You also want to define an environment variable to override *that*, > e.g., files in $UTIL_LINUX_TERMINAL_COLORS override the ones in > $HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d -- that allows you to set up custom > environments for particular trees of processes by creating a suitable > colors directory and setting UTIL_LINUX_TERMINAL_COLORS. for now it follows $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminal-colors.d $HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d /etc/terminal-colors.d Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
