Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:29:14 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Still can't get color in xterm properly. Message-ID: <20020115082914.I393@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020114192638.GE8252@debian.local> References: <20020114170518.GA7846@debian.local> <20020114184637.F393@roman.mobil.cz> <20020114192638.GE8252@debian.local>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:26:39 +0000
> From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> Subject: Re: Still can't get color in xterm properly.
(cc'd back to list)
> On 14 Jan 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:05:18 +0000
> > > From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
> > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: Still can't get color in xterm properly.
> > >
> > > I can set
> > >
> > > TERM=xterm-color; export TERM
> > >
> > > In an xterm window and it will work for that window, but not in others.
> > > If I put it in $HOME/.profile or in /etc/profile it causes wrong symbols
> > > to appear in the consoles and doesn't work in X.
> > >
> > > Where is one supposed to put it so that it is the default for X?
> >
> > Hi Anthony,
> > I've got this in my ~/.Xdefaults:
> > aterm.termName: xterm-color
> >
>
> Thanks also to Jan, Vivek, and Ceri for replies; this was the only
> solution that worked for me. I'm not sure why it's so much more
> difficult to get this effect in Freebsd than in Linux, unless it's the
> difference between terminfo and termcap?
No. Thomas Dickey (xterm maintainer) told me it's because FreeBSD
ships with broken termcap database. See the attached message.
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:54:42 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey@herndon4.his.com>
> > To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> > cc: <mutt-users@mutt.org>
> > Subject: Re: color
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >
> > > > what was $TERM before you set rxvt.termName ?
> > >
> > > just xterm.
> >
> > "xterm" is usually the same as "xterm-r6" (no color).
> >
> > (but "xterm-color" isn't correct - would be nice if FreeBSD installed the
> > correct termcap entries so this wasn't something I had to point out
> > periodically).
>
> I don't say it's correct. I _don't_ know the correct value. I've seen
> this suggested on freebsd-questions@, and it works. But if you tell me
> the correct value, I'll be happy to change the setting.
Usually (except of course the suggestions which are secondhand or worse)
the suggestion is based on the fact that FreeBSD doesn't install a termcap
entry for anything more appropriate.
There is a termcap file distributed with rxvt and one with XFree86 xterm.
I'd start with those (preferring "rxvt" and "xterm-xfree86"). FreeBSD
uses a compiled database for termcap, iirc under /usr/share/misc. Edit
(save the original of course) the termcap file, putting the new entries at
the beginning. Recompile the termcap database (I don't recall the name of
the command - something like make_capdb - there is a manpage for it).
There is also a better termcap file here (but doesn't necessarily include
a few of the specialized console types for FreeBSD):
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/termcap.src.gz
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