Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:05:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Subject: Re: XTERM Message-ID: <19980215080513.02351@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980214094118.dallas.tex@airmail.net>; from David Vondrasek on Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:38:40AM -0600 References: <19980214200344.17914@freebie.lemis.com> <XFMail.980214094118.dallas.tex@airmail.net>
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On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 9:38:40 -0600, David Vondrasek wrote: > > On 14-Feb-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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 >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > Ok Thanks gGreg this is uncommented. But here is what I get, I do get color > thogh. > > > > .$P`.d$P' ,-, $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$,a$n, `$$$%$$$` $$$$` >> `$b,`Y$b, $$$ $$$ $$$ `-' $$$ $$$n ,$$$%$$$, $$P' > ' $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ ,-, $$$ $$$$ ,$$$$% %$$$$,` >> $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$ ,$$$$$$ $$$$$$, > ' $$$$$%P' $$$ $$$ `Y$b,d$$P,$$$n $$P' $$$$$$ $$$$$$ tM! > `#%$%' '%$%#` > > I get the codes I guess. I see color and 1/2 of the esc. seq's, Like some of > the colors don't come though. But out of X it looks fine. Just under X It > miss's stuff. the rxvt does the same thing. This looks like an incorrect TERM setting. What's the program? What is it supposed to do? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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