How to disable colored text on xterm screen

[modemer]

Hello,

Anyone knows how to disable colored text displayed on xterm window screen? I hate that color making me hard to read when front and background color are similar.

For example, when I run "ls" shell command, the color for directory is dark blue, but my background color is black, it's really hard to recgnize.

Any suggestion about changing text color or disable color is fine for me.

Thanks,

M.

 

[vgersh99]

'man xterm'

xterm -bg black -fg red

vlad
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[PHV]

man dircolors

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Chacalinc]

alias ls='ls --color=never'

try ls --color=never

 

[motoslide]

I've found that setting my TERM variable to ansis-mono upon login makes my eyes last longer.

It works for me. I'm sure the ideas listed above are also valid. This works an the few LINUX boxes I support. Other versions may not support that for a TERM type.