Anilrgowda

question: When I SSH to another machine using

ssh -Y -X my_other_machine

In my xterm session, when I list the contents of a directory, the subdirectories list with a light background color and a light text color. This does not happen with the files in the directory, only the subdirectories. I was thinking this is an xterm problem which could be corrected by setting some configuration parameter. However, I do not have a .Xresource file. I do get some output with infocomp. Here is what I am after:

1) Insight that will help me change the colors in my xterm window without opening another window.

That is, I want to change the color permanently, not just execute "xterm -bg black -fg white"

Or

2) Any insight as to how to figure out what my xterm configuration is.

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Anilrgowda

To be clearer, it should be

alias ls='ls -l --color=never'

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