From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 13:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A88637C065; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) id e6JKreV03123; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200007192053.e6JKreV03123@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: FreeBSD Cc: bmah@cisco.com, Brian Somers , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , Kris Kennaway , Ben Smithurst , Josef Karthauser , Matthew Hunt Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: <200007191939.OAA52353@KIWI-Computer.com> References: <200007191939.OAA52353@KIWI-Computer.com> Comments: In-reply-to FreeBSD message dated "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:39:07 -0500." From: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@cisco.com X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_977735408P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:53:40 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_977735408P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, FreeBSD wrote: > > > > *customization: -color > > > > > > > > In .Xdefaults (or anything else that sets X resources). > > > > > > This doesn't appear to have any effect under XFree86-3.3.6. > > > > Confirmed here...I did this on XFree86-3.3.6 on a RELENG_4 machine and > > I still didn't get my colored bikesh^H^H^H^H^H^Hxterm. > > Do you guys have the following (or equivalent) lines in ~/.xinitrc (ro > ~/.xsession if you use a display manager): > > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults Yes I do, but that's not the problem: bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xrdb -query | grep customization *customization: -color bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% which xterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xterm & [switch windows] bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% echo $TERM xterm bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% uname -a FreeBSD bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Mon Jul 17 12:09:54 PDT 2000 root@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/NIMITZ i386 bmah-freebsd-0:bmah% xdpyinfo | grep vendor vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number: 3360 I'm not a big fan of multi-colored xterms, but it'd be nice to document how this works, for people who are. Bruce. --==_Exmh_977735408P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: hUQaD2H4m0EwPwp0s52t2ubGgwBcMqr7 iQA/AwUBOXYVVNjKMXFboFLDEQI9KgCfUhcuKEsZn7pL941PKiW2fOETED4AoOKC nlmhxsL83+2O3vgC4K6RGJez =Ix3s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_977735408P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message