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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:29:30 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Color Xterm (Xfree86 3.2 / Xaccel 3.1)
Message-ID:  <19970623102930.08542@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706230247.WAA23351@weenix.guru.org>; from Keith Mitchell on Sun, Jun 22, 1997 at 10:47:48PM -0400
References:  <199706230247.WAA23351@weenix.guru.org>

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On Sun, Jun 22, 1997 at 10:47:48PM -0400, Keith Mitchell wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the color capabilities in the Xfree86 v3.2 xterm to
> work with Accelerated X v3.1??

Accelerated X 3.1? Anyway, it works with me here under Xaccel 1.3.

> 
> I added:
> 
> *customization: -color

Yes, that's OK, I have that one in my .Xdefaults.

Could you try and see if it makes a difference?
(That's for post 2.2R systems)

ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/incoming/xterm.tar

tar xvf xterm.tar -C /

(it overwrites your /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm so save them before unpacking) 

> 
> to my .Xresources file and verified that it was there with xrdb -query but
> it still won't do color.  My guess is that Accelerated X doesn't support
> the *customization option, but Accelerate X 3.1 is supposed to be X11R6.1
> cerrified.
> 
> If I manually add in the lines from the Xterm-color file into my .Xresources
> file then I can get foreground colors but not background.  i.e. sysinstall
> is still mostly black and white.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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