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From: Cary Mathews <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
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Subject: Re: terminal color problems
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In your home directory, add a .Xdefaults file.  Below is an excerpt of
mine which allows rxvt and aterm to show color.


#if defined(COLOR)
rxvt.termName: xterm-color
aterm.termName: xterm-color
#endif /* COLOR */
!--rxvt defaults--
[ and so on... ]

HTH,
Cary


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:44:48 -0600
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: terminal color problems
>
> In the last episode (Feb 18), Roman Neuhauser said:
> > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:19 -0800
> > > From: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>
> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > Subject: terminal color problems
> > >
> > > #1 I have some sort of termcap problem. My terminal in Xwindows
> > > doesn't have color (xterm) when I use mutt or vim, but rxvt does.
> > > In the console, muttrc colors don't work properly and when I'm in
> > > rxvt I don't have color in vim, but I have color with vim in the
> > > console. ???  I'm sure there's some easy solution to this but it's
> > > way beyond me. Also, my backspace keys don't work properly in vim.
> > > Yet they work properly otherwise.
> >
> >     FreeBSD termcap database is fucked up.
> >     Get Thomas E. Dickey's termcap.src.gz.
>
> easier solution:  set TERM=xterm-color
>
> --
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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