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Thread: LS --color and KDE startup items.

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    LS --color and KDE startup items.

    ok, to start out, I am running debian on one computer and knoppix hd install on the other.

    1. When in root on the knoppix system, I type ls -l and all the directories and executables are in color. However on the freshly installed Debian install, ls -l is not in color, I can get it to go color, by ls --color -l, but I would prefer not to have to type the --color everytime I am in the shell, is this stored as an environment variable or in a config file? and where would it be located. I tried --color=always, but that didn't seem to work. How would I go about changing this?

    2. The language icon appears in the system tray everytime I start KDE, being that I only know one language, how would I remove this? What config file tells KDE to start a program upon start of the GUI? For future note, I would like to be able to control who/what starts when KDE start.

    Thanks in advance. I am a Linux Novice, but am willing to learn.

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    To answer question number one

    Simply edit the .bashrc using vi for your user and enter the following:

    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

    or

    alias ls='ls --color=SOMECOLORHERE'

    HTH,
    John

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    Thank you jpretti.


    Just a note, I am still looking for help with the KDE start up items, anyone that knows where it's stored.

    Thanks

    SD

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    2. The language icon appears in the system tray everytime I start KDE, being that I only know one language, how would I remove this?
    try clicking on the language icon
    open it up and edit the settings so there isn't a choice of languages

    What config file tells KDE to start a program upon start of the GUI? For future note, I would like to be able to control who/what starts when KDE start.
    there is something about
    /etc/rcS.d
    but I've not gone through it all.
    my smoothwall only has
    /etc/rc.d
    as it's a single user system
    knoppix live-cd has 4 tty sessions and the KDE screen.
    the hdd install has 6 tty screens, and
    /etc/rc0d thru /etc/rc6.d
    so I expect they are the startup settings for each mode, I've not poked extensively though

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    I've noticed the loss of colour on my KDE screen's terminal windows.
    and not been able to fix it as yet.

    but I also noticed recently, a ctrl-alt-5 screen will be in color mode but when in su it loses the color.
    so mine might be a prob with the su settings or it might be a feature of su ?

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    but I also noticed recently, a ctrl-alt-5 screen will be in color mode but when in su it loses the color.
    so mine might be a prob with the su settings or it might be a feature of su ?
    I think that you may have the same problem as me. I am pretty sure that my bashrc for my user has the alias set for ls --color, but not the root user. Everytime you su, your essentially logging in as root, so you might want to check the bashrc in the root folder.

    I havn't had time to properly test any of this, since I am away from my home system, but I have checked it on both knoppix and kubuntu live cd's and both of them have alias ls="ls --color=auto" in their bashrc files.

    etc/rc0d thru /etc/rc6.d
    so I expect they are the startup settings for each mode, I've not poked extensively though
    I am not sure if this is what I am looking for, these maybe the startup for each session, but I think I am looking for a startup configuration file for KDE, like i mentioned above, I am currently away from my system, but I am sure that the language option and gaim start up when I use KDE, but neither start when I use a Gnome session. So i am sure that both of them have their own start up configuration files. I have not had the chance to look at the /etc/rcX.d files yet, so they may contain a section for KDE or Gnome specific items.

    Thanks

    SD

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    there is
    /etc/rc1.d - /etc/rc6.d AND /etc/rcS.d
    I'm guessing the S is for screen.....

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    Ah, cool, thanks, I will have a chance to test it out, the day after tommorrow.

    SD

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    Have a look at /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz for the different runlevels. S stands for single user mode and gets run always on bootup. For KDE autoloading programs have a look at ~/.kde/Autostart/
    The systemwide aliases in knoppix are in /etc/profile but you can also see them just by typing alias.

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    Ah, thanks markus, I had actually already found the /usr/share/doc/sysvinit folder. I managed to get a hold of a knoppix CD so that I could start looking into it. According to the readme that I found in one of the rcX.d folders, everything in the rc1.d-rc6.d and rcS.d are just links to files in /etc/init.d. So I ended up poking around in /etc/init.d which lead me to the sysvinit folder. I did come to the conclusion that the rcX.d folders didn't control KDE start up, but system start up and some of X window start up.

    I will check into ~/.kde/Autostart , but that sound like what I am looking for the KDE startup programs.

    Once again, thanks to all that helped.

    SD

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