From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 15: 7:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB8AE1567B for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 26605 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1999 22:42:40 -0000 Received: from useral57.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.134.130) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 1999 22:42:40 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA00528; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:42:35 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:42:34 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm-color ? Message-ID: <19991209224234.B320@marder-1> References: <384F9ECD.AEC4BD54@hq.ups.kiev.ua> <59991.944742770@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <82p0g6$4u8$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <82p0g6$4u8$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 08:38:46PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Rather do it in your own .xinitrc or .xsession as appropriate. For > > example, you might put this in your .xinitrc: > > > > TERM=xterm-color; export TERM > > Sheldon didn't test that. It will not work. xterm ignores the value > of TERM in the environment. You can start xterm with "-tn xterm-color". > If you want to set it as a general preference, put > > XTerm*termName: xterm-color > > in your ~/.Xdefaults. > Which version of xterm and XFree86? I have both set (setenv TERM xterm-color in ~/.cshrc) so I commented out ``XTerm*termName: xterm-color'' in ~/.Xdefaults, ran ``xrdb < .Xdefaults'' and ``xrdb -query'' to confirm it was not set, started an xterm and ran sysinstall and it appeared in colour. > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message