Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:40:06 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Cc: Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970325224006.kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970325104250.21022D-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>; from K. Marsh on Mar 25, 1997 10:54:02 -0800 References: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970325104250.21022D-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu> <199703251731.SAA12412@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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K. Marsh writes: > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Lars Koeller wrote: > > > > >>>>>SNIP<<<<<< > > > > > However, the only color I can seem to get with xterm is black. > > > Do you ever try the console? Thats the first step I think. > > > Not sure what you mean by console. If that's the xterm that, when exited, > will TERM twm, then I've tried it and all I get is black. He meant the vty console (cons25 TERM type). I'm still not sure wether you are using the correct version of xterm (it's gotta be from XF8632). You need to put that *customization: -color into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm or make sure that the resource is loaded into the server before the xterm is started. > > If it's a virtual terminal, then colorls produces nice colors there. You got it ;-) > > I've tried it in the following xterms: > > xterm & > xterm -ls & > xterm +cm & > xterm +cm -ls & > > colorls -Gl and colorls -G produce nothing but black. > _ _ __ _ _ > / \ / \ / | / \ / \ University of Washington () > | | / / / / | \ | | Chemical Engineering /\ > | |/ / / /_ | \ \ | | > | / / | | |\ \ | | > | \ \ __| | | \ \| | > | |\ \ \ \ | | \ | I bask in my own insignificance. > | | \ \ \ \ | | \ | > \_/ \_\ \_| \_/ \_/ > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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