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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 13:49:52 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        pvl@nanoteq.com (P. van Leeuwen)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: color in xterms
Message-ID:  <199705201149.NAA07054@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705201052.MAA18433@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> from "P. van Leeuwen" at "May 20, 97 12:52:05 pm"

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> Hi 
> 
> I know that the new xterms in 3.2 supports native color, but I'm having trouble getting it
> to work. It works fine when I log in as root through xdm, but there is no color when
> I log in as someone else. I have tried all the available options when open a xterm,
> as well as copying .fvwm2rc, .login and .cshrc from /root to make sure all my aliases 
> for both users are the same. Can anyone suggest anything? Do you need to call
> xterm with +cm and +dc options?  BTW I can make the cursor change color, as well

How about .Xdefaults and .Xresources ?
Did you verify that  there is a line

*customization: -color

in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm file?


> as changing the background and foreground. The problem lies I am 
> talking about the ansi escape sequences programs like colorls use.
> 
> thks
> pierre
>  
> 
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