Re: Console colours on NetBSD7

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:09:36PM +0000, John Halfpenny wrote:
> This is my first installation of NetBSD (v7 AMD64). The console comes
> up in glorious high resolution, but I notice when using htop (for
> example) there are no colours.

Most applications query the terminal capabilities and decides whether
to use colors or not, maybe your TERM environment variable is wrong?
Or there is a setting in htop defaults that switches colours off?

The default for you $TERM probably comes from /etc/ttys.

Martin