Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:26:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su Cc: freebsd questions mailing list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xterm is only black&white Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726192321.4449A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199707260345.LAA18644@vas.tomsk.su>
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Try adding: XTerm*colorMode: true to your ~/.Xdefaults. There are others. Grep /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for 'color'. I think color_xterm is obsolete. The xterm with XF32 supports color. -- Jay On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: ->Brian Clapper wrote: ->> Victor A. Sudakov wrote: ->> ->> > Sergei S. Laskavy wrote: ->> > ->> > > Mariusz> I just installed 2.2.1R on my computer and I can't find ->> > > Mariusz> the reason that my xterm is only black and white. On ->> > > ->> > > The right termcap entry for X Term is somewhere in /usr/X11R6. ->> > > You can just copy that file to $HOME/.termcap and X terminal will ->> > > appear in colours :) ->> > ->> > Did not work for me. Any more ideas? ->> > ->> > I am using FreeBSD 2.1.6 ->> ->> If you just want to be able to change the foreground and background colors, ->> read the xterm manual page and look for the `-fg' and `-bg' command line ->> options or their corresponding X resource strings (e.g., `XTerm*foreground' ->> and `XTerm*background'). If, on the other hand, you want an xterm that ->> understands the ANSI color escape sequences (so that one of the colorized -> ->Yes, that is what I want. I want to see Midnight Commander in colors like it ->shows on DEC Alpha at the University. -> ->> ls ports will work, for instance), make sure you've (a) installed the ->> `color_xterm' port or package, and (b) you're firing up `color_xterm', not ->> `xterm'. -> ->Yes, I am firing up "color_xterm". Moreover, I have the following lines in ->my $HOME/.Xresources: -> ->color_xterm*scrollBar: True ->XBuffy*mailboxes: /var/mail/vas ->XBuffy*names: TRUE ->*customization: -color -> ->I do have the scrollbar, but no colors. -> ->-- ->Victor Sudakov ->http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm ->
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