From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 13:03:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03351 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:03:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from goodall.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03344 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id NAA18196; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:03:46 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:03:45 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: Christoph Kukulies cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colorls working with xterm! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Hope you spelled it correctly: > > *customization: -color > > Otherwise it would be useless. > > And forget about XTerm-Color. This file isn't part of the game > if you have the correct XF8632 xterm. XTerm-color is indeed a big part of the game. Thanks to Lars's explanation of how xinit initiates, I traced down my problem and got colorls to work the way it was intended - not with a quick fix but with XTerm-color. The problem was that my /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources file was named without the dot, Xresources. xinitrc was looking for a file with the dot. Many thanks to all and especially to Lars. -------------------------------------------------------- Ken Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering --------------------------------------------------------