From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 15:15:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05764 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05143 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:13:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24196; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:05:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA05001; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:05:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980215080513.02351@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 08:05:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Vondrasek Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bryan K. Ogawa" Subject: Re: XTERM References: <19980214200344.17914@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from David Vondrasek on Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:38:40AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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