From: Plom Heller <plom@plomlompom.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:45:10 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fix ls color loss on switching to root.
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Fix ls color loss on switching to root.
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diff --git a/home/any/.profile.d/aliases b/home/any/.profile.d/aliases
index f0ff635..77d8158 100644
--- a/home/any/.profile.d/aliases
+++ b/home/any/.profile.d/aliases
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+# dircolors only knows a terminal via its $TERM or a non-empty $COLORTERM,
+# and its database has no entry for foot's TERM=foot. So a shell that has
+# lost foot's COLORTERM=truecolor (e.g. root's, via "su -l", which keeps only
+# TERM) gets no LS_COLORS and hence no ls colors. Fill it in with a forced
+# COLORTERM in that case; an existing LS_COLORS is left alone.
+[ -n "${LS_COLORS}" ] || eval "$(COLORTERM=${COLORTERM:-truecolor} dircolors -b)"
 alias ls="ls --color=auto"
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