From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 11:57:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D65B37B7A4; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA03228; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:46:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA09244; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:21:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200007191821.TAA09244@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , Kris Kennaway , Ben Smithurst , Josef Karthauser , Matthew Hunt , brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: Message from "Steve O'Hara-Smith" of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:03:21 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:21:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Everybody seems to have missed this but there is a mechanism to make > xterm set TERM to xterm-color which also makes most other X apps work in > colour. The trick is > > *customization: -color > > In .Xdefaults (or anything else that sets X resources). This doesn't appear to have any effect under XFree86-3.3.6. > I gather (I have not tested) that this even does the right thing if you > run an xterm on a mono X-Server. > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith > > http://sohara.webhop.net/ A Better Way To Focus The Sun -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message