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From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su
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Subject: Re: xterm is only black&white
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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 I think color_xterm is
obsolete.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
->