New User Here: Changing the color scheme of console

Hi there...
My name is Zia and I am from Pakistan. I am primarily a Ubuntu user. But I needed a lightweight console-only operating system specifically for some work in Intel Assembly and a few other things which do not need X. Someone told me Arch was what I was looking for. So I installed Arch base as guest on VirtualBox and so far, it is impressively. It is running on mere 128M physical and 4GB pre-allocated HDD with very nice results. I did hack away with a few things and set the basic configs up myself. That's no big deal since I have a little background knowledge of how Linux works, from my experience with Ubuntu. Ubuntu, however is a little more resource hungry so I am going for Arch on VM.
Enough with my boring chatter. I am here to ask help. Please direct me.
The console looks pretty boring. I changed the console font while installing and I think I can change it again in /etc/rc.d if I want, but the font looks good. The major problem is colors. I googled it and there are plenty of threads specifying how to change the background/foregriund colors of TTY. But that is not what I want. You see, when I list the contents of the directory, I want all the sub-directories to be listed in blue, all the executables in green and rest of the normal files simply white or grey, whatever... The problem is, I am not sure how I would do that.
Someone at some thread mentioned an .Xdefaults. I didn't come across such a file tampering with my Ubuntu box so naturally I am not familiar with it. If that is what I need to master before in order to get what I want, I shall need links or on-thread help, please.
Thanking in anticipation. Zia
EDIT: I have not installed X. Just the base system with samba and a few other things. Should the .Xdefaults still control the console colors? I am not talking about the terminal inside X. I am talking about TTY.
Last edited by zia.newversion (2011-01-17 20:33:57)

echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" >> ~/.bashrc
That will append the alias mentioned in post 2 to your .bashrc which is where aliases are stored (you should run this as user for user's bashrc and root for root's bashrc). You will need to logout or issue
source ~/.bashrc
to get it to work.
For example I've aliased ls to ls -sh to give me file sizes
edit: fixed typo
Last edited by SS4 (2011-01-17 21:39:35)

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