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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:17:54 +0100
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: xterm
Message-ID:  <19990117211754.C1627@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <19990117210541.A1627@sr.se>; from Gunnar Flygt on Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:05:41PM %2B0100
References:  <19990117025046.A16327@holly.dyndns.org> <36A1F992.B609EAF1@uk.radan.com> <19990117123947.B22374@holly.dyndns.org> <19990117210541.A1627@sr.se>

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On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:05:41PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:39:48PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >    I just installed FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE, but xterm does not support color
> > > > as it did when I was using FreeBSD 2.2.  Is there any way I can, well, make
> > > > it work ?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > xterm -tn xterm-color
> > 
> >    Tried that, and that's what I really thought it should do.  Even made
> > it set the TERMCAP variable to the xterm-color termcap entry ... still
> > black and white.
> 
> I noticed a similar behaviour, if I put `xterm -tn xterm-color` in the
> Icon bar that comes with windowmaker then it doesn't work, but if I put
> in windowmaker's menu it works! Can any `smarter` person explain why? :)

Seems that I was `smarter` myself. Discovered thatr I had put the
parameter at the wrong place. It works both in the menus and on the icon
panel.

--
regards, Gunnar

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