Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:25:37 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm + colors just wont splice... Message-ID: <20030226142537.GC55640@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030226140522.81320.qmail@web13502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030226114118.1572b18a.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <20030226140522.81320.qmail@web13502.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:05:22AM -0800, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
>
> --- Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 02:32:33 -0800 (PST)
> > Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy.
> >
> > > when i run 'xterm' i still get the same problem...
> > > btw, i dont have an xterm-color binary or sth like that...
> >
> > Okay, so what happens if you do something like: xterm -bg black -fg
> > white -tn xterm-color and then try ls -G, still no colours?
> >
>
> Superthanks! it works fine..
>
> I also saw on the man xterm that theres something i can add to my
> (non-existent) ~/.Xdefaults file..
> I added it though by default xterm runs colorless...
> Any ways i can 'embed' the -tn xterm-color into xterm (w/o an alias i mean)
> or change something that wud mean all similar applications to run in color-mode?
Add this snippet to your ~/.bashrc (will need a slight rewrite to make it
work under csh):
if [ $TERM == "xterm" ]; then
export TERM=xterm-color
fi
Since xterm sets TERM when it starts up, this approach is reasonably safe.
It will only alter the value of $TERM if it has already been set to xterm.
It will leave $TERM as cons25, for example, when you log in to a tty. It
works well for me.
Dan
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