From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 10: 8:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F8814CA3 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:08:20 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110589D@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'freebsd@lucifer.ru.ac.za'" , Matthew Joseff Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cannot get colorful xterm Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:09:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To my knowledge the xterm-color is a port that needs to be installed. But after a search through the ports collection I came up with nothing, so maybe xterm is the color xterm, or maybe it's just packaged with the release, I'm not at home so I can't check right now. Anyone else want to chime in? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: FreeBSD user [SMTP:freebsd@lucifer.ru.ac.za] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 1:03 PM > To: Matthew Joseff > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: cannot get colorful xterm > > On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:52:40PM -0500, Matthew Joseff wrote: > % On Wed, 12 May 1999, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: > % } Hello. > % } How do I make my xterm window be colourful ? I have set TERM > % } variable to "xterm-color" but all colorful applications (such as > % } lynx, midc) do still run in monochrome mode. > % } Adding XTerm*TermName to app-defaults (obviously) doesn't change > % } anything. > % } I run FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE, XFree86 3.3.2. > % > % xterm -bg (color) -fg (font color) > Oddly enough, I don't think that's a problem. > My question is whether he has installed xterm-color or if xterm and > xterm-color > on F*BSD are the same thing ? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message