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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:03:44 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, dallas.tex@airmail.net
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: XTERM
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On Sat, 14 February 1998 at  1:07:54 -0800, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote:
> In localhost.freebsd.questions you write:
>
>> I'm tring to run a program that uses ANIS color and was told I need to set the
>> ENV VAR to * SET TERM COLOR * ? to be able to display the colors with out
>> seeing ansi seq's. ANy help on HOW to set this please ?
>
>> I'm running 2.2.5-R with FVWM2
>
> I don't think the stock xterm which comes with the X distribution does
> color.  I'd recommend rxvt instead, which does handle it.  Look in the
> ports/packages for it.

No, the standard xterm does do colour.  You need to set the TERM
environment to xterm-color.  There's also a resource which governs the
use of colour.  It should be enabled by default, but if you have
trouble, check that you have this line in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm:

*VT100*colorMode: on

> rxvt is also half the memory size of xterm, so it's good even if you
> don't need color.

So what doesn't it do that xterm does?

Greg

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