Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:21:08 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? Message-ID: <199703250821.JAA04593@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> In-Reply-To: durang's message of Mon, 24 Mar 1997 23:52:21 -0800. <Pine.A41.3.95b.970324234053.19252A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
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---------- Hi! In reply to "K. Marsh" who wrote: > This may be a question for XFree, if so I beg pardon. > > I just built the colorls port on a new installation of FreeBSD 2.2 and > XFree86 3.2. > > The DESCR file for the colorls port reads: > > Standard xterm prior to XFree86 3.1.2B doesn't know about colors, > so you should use update your XFree86 or use kterm (available from > the ports collection). > > This leaves me with the impression that with XF3.2 I no longer need > color_xterm to use colorls. Well, thats o.k. the xterm in XFree-3.2 understand the ANSI color ESC-sequences! > However, the only color I can seem to get with xterm is black. I've tried > various xterm switches including +cm and +dc to no avail. > > can I run colorls without color_xterm? Run without any problem fo me. Try this: - open a xterm - execute 'colorls -Gl /' A colored listing of / should appear. If this fails try it on the console. Never hat problem with it. Do you have in the file /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/Xresources the following line to enable color display? *customization: -color Lars -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: | Lars Koeller Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE | Department of Physics ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de | University of Rostock PGP-key: | Germany http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/pks-toplev.html | ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org ------------
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