You need to tell your terminal what colors to display, for example mine
~/.Xdefaults for most popular terminals, including
xterm and
urxvt:
http://strony.toya.net.pl/~vermaden/text/dot.Xdefaults
Its about these values:
Code:
!black
*color0: #222222
*color8: #554444
!red
*color1: #884422
*color9: #cc5533
!green
*color2: #778800
*color10: #88aa22
!yellow
*color3: #887733
*color11: #aa9955
!blue
*color4: #8866cc
*color12: #9977dd
!magneta
*color5: #885500
*color13: #996600
!cyan
*color6: #5555aa
*color14: #7777aa
!white
*color7: #bbaa99
*color15: #ddccaa