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From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? 
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Hello!

In reply to "K. Marsh" who wrote:
 
 > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Lars Koeller wrote:
 > 
 > > In reply to "K. Marsh" who wrote:
 > >  
 > >>>>>SNIP<<<<<<
 > >  > However, the only color I can seem to get with xterm is black. I've tri
     ed
 > >  > various xterm switches including +cm and +dc to no avail.
 > > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Tried that.
 > Still no colors. Could the manager have anything to do with it? I'm using
 > twm via startx at the moment.
 > 
 > 
 > 	> Do you have in the file 
 > 	> 
 > 	> 	/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/Xresources 
 > 
 > 
 > I Didn't, but now I do. The only line in it is:
 > 
 > 
 > 	> 	*customization: -color 
 > 
 > 
 > Still no colors.
 > 

Thats impossible ;-)

Do you ever try the console? Thats the first step I think.

Lars
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