When I switched to tty I noticed manpages look different by using some color scheme. How to make it to gnome-terminal?
Update: Here is a solution, I found at Unix stackExchange site.
When I switched to tty I noticed manpages look different by using some color scheme. How to make it to gnome-terminal?
Update: Here is a solution, I found at Unix stackExchange site.
I didn't know it, but I found something here:
http://www.tuxarena.com/2012/04/tutorial-colored-man-pages-how-it-works/
Instructions from the above link:
Edit your .bashrc file and add the following lines:
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf '\e[01;31m') # enter blinking mode - red
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf '\e[01;35m') # enter double-bright mode - bold, magenta
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf '\e[0m') # turn off all appearance modes (mb, md, so, us)
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf '\e[0m') # leave standout mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf '\e[01;33m') # enter standout mode - yellow
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf '\e[0m') # leave underline mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf '\e[04;36m') # enter underline mode - cyan
Next, start a new terminal session or enter the command source ~./bashrc
in your current terminal.
You can have coloured man pages using the following commands:
sudo apt-get install most
export PAGER="most"
Now check your man pages by
man ls
most
as the pager for man
then you can alias this via alias man="man -P most"
.
Sep 23, 2014 at 22:59
most
for its colouring of man
pages, I'd suggest that you just setup colours for less
instead.
Without needing to install most
, you can configure less
to look like this:
Add the following in your `~.bashrc':
# Have less display colours
# from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_output_in_console#man
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[1;31m' # begin bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;33m' # begin blink
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;37m' # begin reverse video
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;37m' # begin underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' # reset bold/blink
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' # reset reverse video
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' # reset underline
If you use Oh My Zsh you can add colored-man-pages
to the plugins
array of your .zshrc
file.
One possible way would be a manual one by Going through the Edit menu of Gnome Terminal in Menu Bar , then In Profile Preferences as here in image. You can try and play around to suite your needs.
Another is a process explained here.Though explained for 11.04 version , check out its homepage for further info.