how to get rid of color terminals on RH 7.x

Scott Lanning slanning at buphy.bu.edu
Tue Jun 12 12:08:00 EDT 2001


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:
>I can I get rid of color mode in my xterms?
>
>	'ls' was aliased (that was easy)
>
>	man, top, etc... must be getting the color flag somehwere?

I think it's from the xterm. If you `man xterm`, you find
alot of options (grep for "color") like:

    -bdc    Set the vt100 resource colorBDMode to FALSE,
            disabling the display of characters with bold
            attribute as color
    -rvc    This option disables the display of characters with
            reverse attribute as color.
    -ulc    This  option disables the display of characters with
            underline attribute as color rather than with underlining.

Apparently you can also set them with X resources; c.f. the section
named "RESOURCES" (the color modes). Maybe there's a way to disable
colors in one fell swoop, but I didn't look very hard.

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