From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 7 16:44:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02773 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:44:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02766 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:44:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA04844; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:13:51 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971008091351.11436@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:13:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wei Weng Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: better xterm for freebsd? References: <19971007113106.08628@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Wei Weng on Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:59:35AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:59:35AM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > I got that scroll bar part now. :) thanx Good > But i still can't see any color in my xterm. I already set up > TERM=xterm-color; export TERM in my .profile file. But it doesn't seem to > work. How are you telling? What colour-aware programs have you been using? > Is there any other way to do it? No. > And where can I find nxterm or color-xterm to download? You should be using version 3.2.2 of XFree86. Otherwise pick one up at ftp.xfree86.org. > And what surprised me is i found XTerm-color file in > app-defaults. Does it mean you can actually use xterm-color in > freebsd? First, the app-defaults contain information, not programs. The fact that there is an entry there doesn't mean you have the program. And yes, of course you can use xterm-color. Either this is a separate program, in which case you need to find it, or, as I suspect, it's the standard xterm. > (or why it gives you a default settings?) Maybe you need to rename it to Xterm if you want to use colour. Greg > On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: >>> hi >>> is there soemthing like color_xterm or nxterm in linux for freebsd instead >>> of xterm or rxvt? Both of them are too slow, >> >> How do you determine that? >> >>> and xterm doesn't even have a scroll bar. >> >> It does if you tell it to have one. man xterm: >> >> $ xterm -sb >> >> The xterm under FreeBSD is *identical* with that under Linux, assuming >> you're both using the same X server (either XFree86 or XI Graphics >> ($)). The performance depends mainly on your hardware. If you want >> xterm to display colour, set your TERM variable to xterm-color: >> >> TERM=xterm-color xterm -sb >> >> Greg >> > -- Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.com PO Box 460 Tel: +61-8-8388-8286 Echunga SA 5153 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Australia -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2i mQCNAzGpfDEAAAEEAMh6rH1c9+oKgazwGLitshrIFKFSGelccTK1fwnMw2O6SrK8 r0ttvRO42fZa8WXvlsSF1JIAqOJoaBP8HJNv6G/RA1NcKgqQKLc4RmTNnu6MoPe0 a25w25wyKOfzefJTS9dsQhWg2XJlyRo4YMtbSxDOZldq7kmga0Sj8+byVwABAAUR tBNDQyA8Y2NAbWFyY2FkZS5jb20+tAZDb250cm8= =FJvY -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----