From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 06:54:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA12974 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA12965 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail (PMDF V5.0-6 #16313) id <01IH1I62XG5O8Y4WQK@mail>; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:53:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA27574; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:05:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:05:35 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Subject: Re: colorls working with xterm! In-reply-to: ; from K. Marsh on Mar 27, 1997 03:38:08 -0800 To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Cc: Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller), questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58e Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199703261953.UAA27973@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk K. Marsh writes: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Lars Koeller wrote: > > > This file should be automatically loaded, if the *customaziation: -color is in > > your xrdb database, as mentioned before. Perhaps there are some problems > > (missing files, permissions) when X is started up. > > The file that should be automatically loaded is XTerm-color, right? > Instead I just made XTerm reflect what XTerm-color would have if it were > loaded. > > I agree that XTerm-color should be automatically loaded, but I don't know > where I can find the xrdb database, and I don't know how I can add > "*customaziation: -color" to it. It seems to me that xrdb is a binary, so > I need to issue some command, such as: > > xrdb -append "*customaziation: -color" Hope you spelled it correctly: *customization: -color Otherwise it would be useless. And forget about XTerm-Color. This file isn't part of the game if you have the correct XF8632 xterm. > > The man page is not helping me understand what to do, either. Can you > clarify how I can put the color in my xrdb database? > > Thanks, Ken > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de