no color in terminal emulators and ls does not use -F argument by default
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I've recently reinstalled my slackware OS because I felt like I'd messed things up near the beginning of my initially getting into it last year and so used a 14.2 dvd I had - wiped everything, reinstalled and upgraded to -current.
Now I was on -current before I reinstalled as well, and I was running the classic combo of dwm, dmenu and st - which I'm again running now. Only this time, it seems that whenever I run ls on a directory in my terminal emulator, it doesn't use color and it doesn't leave trailing slashes at the end of directories to let you know what's a file and what's a directory like it used to. I've come to find that this is invoked by the -F argument for ls, though I don't remember ever aliasing it to do that myself. These problems are nonexistent on the standard tty console, before booting up xterm. Colour and directory listings work fine.
I tried running xterm and I get the same problems. I don't think it's exclusive to dwm either as if I change to xfce, the same thing happens.
Now I was on -current before I reinstalled as well, and I was running the classic combo of dwm, dmenu and st - which I'm again running now. Only this time, it seems that whenever I run ls on a directory in my terminal emulator, it doesn't use color and it doesn't leave trailing slashes at the end of directories to let you know what's a file and what's a directory like it used to. I've come to find that this is invoked by the -F argument for ls, though I don't remember ever aliasing it to do that myself. These problems are nonexistent on the standard tty console, before booting up xterm. Colour and directory listings work fine.
I tried running xterm and I get the same problems. I don't think it's exclusive to dwm either as if I change to xfce, the same thing happens.