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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:22:39 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        bmah@cisco.com
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Color ls 
Message-ID:  <200007192122.WAA52194@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah)  of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:53:40 PDT." <200007192053.e6JKreV03123@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> 

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Ditto here on FreeBSD-current.

> If memory serves me right, FreeBSD wrote:
> > > > > *customization: -color
> > > > > 
> > > > >         In .Xdefaults (or anything else that sets X resources).
> > > > 
> > > > This doesn't appear to have any effect under XFree86-3.3.6.
> > > 
> > > Confirmed here...I did this on XFree86-3.3.6 on a RELENG_4 machine and 
> > > I still didn't get my colored bikesh^H^H^H^H^H^Hxterm.
> > 
> > Do you guys have the following (or equivalent) lines in ~/.xinitrc (ro
> > ~/.xsession if you use a display manager):
> > 
> > 	xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
> 
> Yes I do, but that's not the problem:
> 
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xrdb -query | grep customization
> *customization: -color
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% which xterm
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xterm &
> 
> [switch windows]
> 
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% echo $TERM
> xterm
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% uname -a
> FreeBSD bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Mon Jul 17 12:09:54 PDT 2000     root@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/NIMITZ  i386
> bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xdpyinfo | grep vendor
> vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
> vendor release number:    3360
> 
> I'm not a big fan of multi-colored xterms, but it'd be nice to document 
> how this works, for people who are.
> 
> Bruce.




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