UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there,

First, some specs: my system is running Sun OS 5.9, my preferred shell is BASH, and I generally connect using either Tera Term Pro (on Windows) or Niftytelnet (on Mac). I log in from many different computers throughout the day and would like to have my favorite background / text color combo wherever I go (and I don't want to have to configure the client software at each station). The default on both these programs is white background / black text; I'd like black background / green text. Can I do this using .profile? I played around with some escape sequences but haven't had any luck (the closest I came was reverse video for the text only, with the rest of the background still showing white). And exporting the DISPLAY variable won't work either since I only use terminal sessions. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

If you want reverse video you should be changing the default of the terminal you are starting with from Windows, not trying to change it after you get into the UNIX system. You should be able to save the default configuration you want.

Or, you can read this post which may help you. I don't know if it will work putting it in .profile, but you might create a script to run each time you log in to change things from .profile.

Yeah - I didn't think it was going to be possible.

Thanks for the info, RTM.