Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:04:12 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014671053.596fa9@mired.org> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie xterm color ? Message-ID: <15476.3916.761080.392914@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <126563389@toto.iv>
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Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> types: > I'm having trouble finding how to make xterm display in color. I have > [setenv TERM=xterm-color] in my .tcshrc but that doesn't do the trick. > It's strange though, RXVT will display mutt in color, but XTERM won't, > from the command line both vim and mutt both display in color, but not > in xterm. You've got the setenv syntax wrong. RXVT works because it (presumably) sets the xterm type to xterm-color itself, whereas xterm proper doesn't. You can tell xterm to do that by adding #ifdef COLOR XTerm*termName: xterm-color #endif to your .Xresources file (or whatever file is being fed to xrdb to set resources). If you're not using anything, then echo 'XTerm*termName: xterm-color' | xrdb in .xinitrc - before you start any xterms - will do the job, except that will also set it in the unlikely event that you are on an X server that doesn't support color. I think this method is a bit cleaner than setting things in the shell startup files. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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