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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 11:45:56 +0800 (TSD)
From:      "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
To:        questions@freebsd.org (freebsd questions mailing list)
Subject:   Re: xterm is only black&white
Message-ID:  <199707260345.LAA18644@vas.tomsk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199707251548.LAA02187@trilobite.ab.platinum.com> from "Brian Clapper" at "Jul 25, 97 11:48:31 am"

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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



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