Powershell: No colors in powershell-6.0.4 on Fedora 28 - just black/white

[MatXron]

Steps to reproduce

• Download and install latest Fedora 28 with KDE:
  https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html
  (you can run it in VM)
• Update it
• Add MS repo or just download RPM and install powershell-6.0.4-1.rhel.7.x86_64
  sudo dnf install powershell.rpm
• Run the pwsh and run command
  Write-Host test -ForegroundColor Red
• or you can try
  Write-Verbose test -Verbose

Expected behavior

Colored text

Actual behavior

No colors

Environment data

Fedora 28
KDE Plasma 5.13 (plasmashell 5.13.3)
Kernel 4.17.12-200.fc28.x86_64
PowerSshell powershell-6.0.4-1.rhel.7.x86_64

[iSazonov]

What terminal do you use?

[rudolfvesely]

This is a configuration issue - not bug.

You can fix it by changing environment variable TERM from __xterm-256color__ to __xterm__

A few options how to do it:

• change environment in KDE Konsole (assuming you use default terminal emulator)
• start PowerShell by: TERM=xterm pwsh
• add $env:TERM = 'xterm' to your PowerShell profile
• edit your ~/.bashrc and add alias pwsh="TERM='xterm' pwsh"
  
  
  
  • or my favorite: alias pwsh="TERM='xterm' pwsh -NoLogo"
    
    :-)